Daniel Webster said this quote

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

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