Quote

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Daniel Webster

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Whatever
Christian
Makes
Good
Men
Citizenship
Christians
Citizens

More quotes by Daniel Webster

Image
I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.
Daniel Webster
Image
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
Daniel Webster
Image
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
Daniel Webster
Image
I still live. Pretty.
Daniel Webster
Image
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
Daniel Webster
Image
On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like another morn, Risen on mid-noon and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.
Daniel Webster
Image
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Daniel Webster
Image
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
Daniel Webster
Image
We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
Daniel Webster
Image
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.
Daniel Webster
Image
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Daniel Webster
Image
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
Daniel Webster
Image
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
Image
If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.
Daniel Webster
Image
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
Daniel Webster
Image
I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.
Daniel Webster
Image
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.
Daniel Webster
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Daniel Webster