186 Quotes by Daniel Webster

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

The States are nations.

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

The farmers are the founders of civilization.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death