Quote

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

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
Bayonet
Bayonets
Besides
Thank
Influence
Age
Live
Something

More quotes by Daniel Webster

Image
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster
Image
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
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
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
Daniel Webster
Image
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Daniel Webster
Image
We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.
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 dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
Daniel Webster
Image
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster
Image
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
Image
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
Image
The States are nations.
Daniel Webster
Image
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
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
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
If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
Daniel Webster
Image
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
Daniel Webster
Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .
Daniel Webster
Image
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 Webster