Daniel Webster quotes - page 4

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. (Daniel Webster)
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform their duty to the world. View quote
Daniel Webster
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING. View quote
Daniel Webster
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves. View quote
Daniel Webster
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. View quote
Daniel Webster
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 forever. View quote
Daniel Webster
Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mindthat is one of the best sources of knowledge. View quote
Daniel Webster
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation. View quote
Daniel Webster
Mind is the great lever of all things. View quote
Daniel Webster
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down. View quote
Daniel Webster
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality. (Daniel Webster)
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. he did this because loved christians and wanted everyone to be one. View quote
Daniel Webster
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 Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world. View quote
Daniel Webster
I have entire confidence in the improvements to our husbandry, and the other great advantages, which would accrue from judicious rotation of products. View quote
Daniel Webster
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. View quote
Daniel Webster
Standing armies are the oppressive instruments for governing the people, in the hands of hereditary and arbitrary monarchs. View quote
Daniel Webster
He studies to use his land so as not to abuse it. View quote
Daniel Webster
Territories were acquired by fire and sword. Cities were destroyed by fire and sword. Hundreds of thousands of human beings fell by fire and sword. Even conversion to Christianity was attempted by fire and sword. View quote
Daniel Webster
In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. View quote
Daniel Webster
As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies? View quote
Daniel Webster
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. (Daniel Webster)
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. View quote
Daniel Webster
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality. View quote
Daniel Webster
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. View quote
Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. View quote
Daniel Webster