A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. — 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
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war,… — 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
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. — 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; but it… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
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 Image
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
