Daniel Webster quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

There is always room at the top.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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