186 Quotes by Daniel Webster

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

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

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

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

Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.

Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.