Daniel Webster
17 quotations
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
The past is at least secure.
There is always room at the top.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.