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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
- Government
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech (15 March 1837); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), p. 349
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech (July 17, 1850); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), p. 437
- Patriotism
Thank God, I — I also — am an American!
Daniel Webster1782–1852On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 107
- Patriotism
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Second Reply to Hayne (1830)
- Liberty
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 78
- Patriotism
America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Daniel Webster1782–1852On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 105
- Presidency
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!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Second Reply to Hayne (1830)
- Patriotism
George Bush doesn’t care about black people.
Kanye Westborn 1977Live on NBC’s A Concert for Hurricane Relief (2 September 2005)
- Presidency
- Race
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Canterville Ghost (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see “Common Language”, oscarwildeinamerica.org (retrieved 9 May 2026)
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Woman of No Importance (1893)
- Youth
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924Address, Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry, Washington (May 16, 1914).