Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.Collection: Great
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.Collection: Gardening
There is always room at the top.Collection: Motivational
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.Collection: Good
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.Collection: Independence
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.Collection: Government
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.Collection: Education
Wisdom begins at the end.Collection: Wisdom
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.Collection: Truth
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Collection: Failure
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.Collection: Society
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.Collection: Power
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.Collection: Anger
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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 kind, he works wonders.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
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.
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 mastersCollection: Mean
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 overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.Collection: Bible
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 received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.Collection: Country
There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.Collection: Powerful
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentionsCollection: Freedom
Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.Collection: Exercise
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.Collection: Government
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 restCollection: Communication