Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God;… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
If we work on marble it will perish. If we work on brass, time will efface it. If we raise temples, they will crumble… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. — Daniel Webster Copy Share
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. — Daniel Webster Copy Share
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. — Daniel Webster Copy Share
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my… — Daniel Webster Copy Share
