Daniel Webster Quotations

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.

Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.