186 Quotes by Daniel Webster

Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens.

I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

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.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

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

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

I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people