Authors - Daniel Webster
Brief Biography
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 - October 24, 1852) was a leading American statesman and senator from Massachusetts during the period leading up to the Civil War. He first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. Webster's increasingly nationalistic views, and his effectiveness as a speaker, made him one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System. He was a spokesman for modernization, banking and industry, but not for the common people who composed the base of his enemies in Jacksonian Democracy. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1302by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Quote 1348by Anonymous on 12/01/2011
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Quote 1460by Anonymous on 13/01/2011
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
Quote 1666by Anonymous on 15/01/2011
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Quote 2484by Anonymous on 30/01/2011
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Quote 2494by Anonymous on 31/01/2011
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 engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Quote 2778by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Quote 3037by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Quote 3299by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Quote 3653by Anonymous on 08/02/2011
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.
Quote 3937by Anonymous on 12/02/2011
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Quote 4205by Anonymous on 17/02/2011
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.
Quote 4629by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Quote 4862by Anonymous on 02/03/2011
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Quote 5772by Anonymous on 27/08/2011
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Quote 9054by Anonymous on 14/06/2012
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.
Quote 11598by Anonymous on 10/01/2013
Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth.
