Quotes by Daniel Webster

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

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

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

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

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

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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

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

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