Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Daniel Webster
Age: 70 †
Born: 1782
Born: January 18
Died: 1852
Died: October 25
Diplomat
Former United States Senator
Lawyer
Politician
Salisbury
New Hampshire
Usually
Internet
Falsehoods
Among
Quarrel
Lying
Quarrels
Truth
Falsehood
Liars
Disagree
Truths
More quotes by Daniel Webster
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Daniel Webster
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
Daniel Webster
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
Daniel Webster
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
Daniel Webster
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.
Daniel Webster
Thank God, I also am an American!
Daniel Webster
Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.
Daniel Webster
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
Daniel Webster
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Daniel Webster
Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me but my heart has always assured and reassured me that
Daniel Webster
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster
I still live. Pretty.
Daniel Webster
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.
Daniel Webster
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Daniel Webster
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster
There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster
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.
Daniel Webster
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.
Daniel Webster
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster