Daniel Webster
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers…
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Wisdom begins at the end.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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…