Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
Daniel Websterwas an American statesman who twice served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Hampshireand Massachusetts, served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusettsand was twice the United States Secretary of State, under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tylerand Millard Fillmore. Along with James G. Blaine, he is one of only two people who have served as Secretary of State under three presidents. He also sought the Whig Party nomination for President three times: in 1836, 1840...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1782
CitySalisbury, NH
CountryUnited States of America
Daniel Webster quotes about
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
The States are nations.
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.
Thank God, I also am an American!
On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.