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Portrait of Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

(1782–1852) Politician

170 quotes in 890 categories

Daniel Webster’s oratory legacy shines through these 170 excerpts. His mastery of language, commitment to the Union, and thoughtful legal insight offer a window into a pivotal era of American thought.

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Daniel Webster was a politician, best known for The writings and speeches.

Quick Facts About Daniel Webster

Born: January 18, 1782
Died: October 24, 1852
Profession: Politician
Notable works: The writings and speeches

About Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court in his career. During his life, Webster had been a member of the Federalist Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party. He was among the three members of the Great Triumvirate along with Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Daniel Webster

“I still live.”

Life

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Wisdom begins at the end.

Begins

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I still live. Pretty.

Death

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The States are nations.

Independence

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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents

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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Honor

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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Forever

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“History is God's providence in human affairs.”

Destiny

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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Anger

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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Character

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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Freedom

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Mind is the great lever of all things.

All things

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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

Atheism

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The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to…

Difficult

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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Cybersecurity

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May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!

4th of july

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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Government

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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Earth

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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Country

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If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

Bible

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Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid…

Aids

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The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The…

Belief

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It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to…

House

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Freedom

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If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National,…

Constitution

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Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to…

Connecting

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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Civilized

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as…

Appearance

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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the…

All things

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Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some…

America

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In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to…

Class

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Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may…

Admiration

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“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining…

Last time

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Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is…

Community

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[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality,…

Authority

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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.…

Civilized

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I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

Buried

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Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Economy

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Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Circumstances

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One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Constitution

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Daniel Webster by topic

Politics (31) Men (27) Government (27) Ifs (25) Liberty (22) Freedom (20) Religion (18) May (17) People (16) Country (16) Constitution (15) World (13) Law (13) Political (12) Nature (12) Life (10) Time (9) States (8) Property (8) Principles (8) Liberalism (8) Humans (8) Economy (8) Earth (8) Character (8)