A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Daniel Webster

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Daniel Webster

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

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
Daniel Webster

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Daniel Webster


I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
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

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster