Daniel Webster Quotes

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another 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. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.

~ Daniel Webster

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

~ Daniel Webster

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830

~ Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

~ Daniel Webster

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety, and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

~ Daniel Webster

I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.

~ Daniel Webster

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

~ Daniel Webster

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 grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

~ Daniel Webster

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

~ Daniel Webster

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.

~ Daniel Webster

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

~ Daniel Webster

There is always room at the top.

~ Daniel Webster

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

~ Daniel Webster

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

~ Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins at the end.

~ Daniel Webster

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

~ Daniel Webster

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.

~ Daniel Webster