Daniel Webster1782–1852The quotations of
Daniel Webster
14th and 19th United States Secretary of State
1782–1852
31 quotes, most often on America, Government and Liberty.
- On Mr. Justice Story (September 12, 1845); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), page 300
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Speech (3 June 1834); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume iv, page 47There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
Speech in the Senate (27 May 1834), on President Andrew Jackson’s protest, The Works of Daniel Webster, 10th edition (1857), Vol. 4, p. 133- Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 136
- A speech delivered at Niblo’s Saloon, in New York, on the 15 of March, 1837.
- Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), Vol. II, p. 393
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Often credited to Daniel Webster
Quotes often credited to Daniel Webster that were said or written by someone else.
