186 Quotes by Daniel Webster

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

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life