If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

— Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster Quotes

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.

— Daniel Webster

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land – nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

— Daniel Webster

Let our object be – our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument – not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.

— Daniel Webster

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

— Daniel Webster

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

— Daniel Webster

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that.

— Daniel Webster

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

— Daniel Webster

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

— Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

— Daniel Webster

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will;.

— Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

— Daniel Webster

History is God’s providence in human affairs.

— Daniel Webster

Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good master, but they mean to be master.

— Daniel Webster

It is time to think differently about gun violence as a public health problem. From that perspective, a fair and effective policy should start with risk, not mental illness.

— Daniel W. Webster

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

— Daniel Webster
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