Quotes By Daniel Webster

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

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

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

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

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.