Quotes By Daniel Webster

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

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

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

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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

There is always room at the top.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

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

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

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