31 Quotations by Daniel Webster
- 1. A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
- 2. A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
- 3. Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
- 4. God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
- 5. Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to ...
- 6. I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, w ...
- 7. I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
- 8. I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
- 9. I still live.
- 10. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
- 11. If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples ...
- 12. It is, sir, as I have said, a small college -- and yet there are those who love it.
- 13. Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
- 14. Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capi ...
- 15. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote ...
- 16. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
- 17. Mind is the great lever of all things.
- 18. One country, one constitution, one destiny.
- 19. Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with th ...
- 20. Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has ...
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