Daniel Webster

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

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

History is God's providence in human affairs.

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a l…

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean t…

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

I still live.

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of goodintentions.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.

There is always room at the top.

I shall stand by the Union, and by all who stand by it. I shall do justice to the whole country...in all I say, and act for the good of the whole country in all I do. I mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no othe…

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then e…

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

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from…

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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 easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controver…

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 out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almigh…

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830

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 Providence; it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand tha…

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

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

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 to be masters

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American…

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.

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 a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and…

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 soon regain all the rest

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 we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwh…

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessne…