Daniel Webster quotes and sayings by Daniel Webster on motivation, God, love, liberty, confession, government, people, judgement, destiny, constitution etc.
Daniel Webster was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator, was twice the U.S. Secretary of State and served twice in the U.S. House of Representative. He was only one of the two politicians to have served as Secretary of State under three different presidents. Webster was nominated for presidency of the Whig Party thrice during the first half of 19th century United States. He was also affiliated with other political parties namely Federalist Party and National Republican Party. Webster was one of the dynamic courtroom lawyers. He was also instrumental in negotiations of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 which helped in establishing boundaries between the United States and Canada. Being a persuasive orator, he also played a key part in evoking nationalism. Webster’s sayings and quotes are quite often quoted by people. Here are some of the most powerful quotes from this dynamic politician in American history.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession
Daniel Webster
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest
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.
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
Daniel Webster
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Daniel Webster
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people
Daniel Webster
Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable!
Daniel Webster
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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.
Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.
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
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
