Daniel Webster Quotes

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• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
• We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
• Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
• The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
• The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
• We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his…
• Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs…
• The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
• If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as…
• If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would…
• I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign…
• There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean…
• Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in…
• If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity…
• It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the…
• The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

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