Quote

I still live. Pretty.

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
Live
Pretty
Death
Stills
Still

More quotes by Daniel Webster

Image
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Daniel Webster
Image
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
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
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
Image
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Daniel Webster
Image
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
Daniel Webster
Image
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
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
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.
Daniel Webster
Image
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
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
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Daniel Webster
Image
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
Daniel Webster
Image
The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
Daniel Webster
Image
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
Daniel Webster
Image
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
Daniel Webster
Image
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Daniel Webster
Image
The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
Daniel Webster
Image
The farmers are the founders of civilization.
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