Daniel Webster Quotes

United States, Politician
January 18, 1782 – October, 24, 1852.

Daniel Webster was an American politician who represented New Hampshire (1813–1817) and Massachusetts (1823–1827) in the United States House of Representatives; served as a Senator from Massachusetts (1827–1841, 1845–1850); and was the United States Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison (1841), John Tyler (1841–1843), and Millard Fillmore (1850–1852). He and James G. Blaine are the only people to serve as Secretary of State under three presidents. Webster also sought the Whig Party nomination for President in 1836, 1840, and 1852.

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Daniel Webster
- Energy
- Failure
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Daniel Webster
- Forever

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

Daniel Webster
- Great
- Mind
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Daniel Webster
- God
- Forever
- Dying
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Daniel Webster
- Wishes
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

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

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- People
- Power
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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- House

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!

Daniel Webster
- Small
- College
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration for ever!

Daniel Webster
- World
- God
- Country
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

Daniel Webster
- God
- Book
- Faith
I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.

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- American
- Fly
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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- Men
- Heaven
The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

Daniel Webster

Washington is in the clear upper sky.

Daniel Webster
- Sky