Daniel Webster – One of the great Orators this country has produced. His stirring words kept Americans fully conscious of their duty to the nation and to each other. Click Here for some full renderings of his speeches kept at his alma mater.


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

Daniel Webster


A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Daniel Webster


A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Daniel Webster


An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Daniel Webster


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

Daniel Webster


God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Daniel Webster


How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

Daniel Webster


It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

Daniel Webster


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

Daniel Webster


Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Daniel Webster


Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster


Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

Daniel Webster


The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

Daniel Webster


The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Daniel Webster


What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Daniel Webster


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

Daniel Webster


Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Daniel Webster