Daniel Webster Quotes
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He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
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I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. 'What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.'
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Suppose that, by some new discovery, or some improved mode of culture, only one per cent could be added to the annual results of English cultivation; this, of itself, would materially affect the comfortable subsistence of millions of human beings.
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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
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A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
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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.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
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Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.