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Daniel Webster [1782-1852] American

Rank: 101
Statesman, Former United States Senator

Daniel Webster was an American statesman who twice served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Hampshire and Massachusetts, served as a U.S.

Anger, Cool, Failure, Gardening, God, Great, Independence, Men, Motivational, Politics, Power, Society, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is always room at the top.	Motivational	101
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.		102
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.	Power	103
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.	God	104
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.	Great, Politics	105
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.	Failure	106
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.		107
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.		108
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.	Men	109
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.		110
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.		111
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.		112
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.		113
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.	Gardening	114
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.		115
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.	Independence	116
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.		117
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.	Anger, Cool	118
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.		119
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.		120
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.		121
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.		122
Wisdom begins at the end.	Wisdom	123
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.		124
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.	Society	125
One country, one constitution, one destiny.		126
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.		201
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.		202
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.		203
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.		204
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.		205
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.		206
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.		207
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.		208
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.		209
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.		210
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.		211
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.		212
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.		213
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.		214
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.		215
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.		216

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