I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

- Daniel Webster

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

- Daniel Webster

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

- Daniel Webster

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

- Daniel Webster

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

- Daniel Webster

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

- Daniel Webster

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

- Daniel Webster

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

- Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

- Daniel Webster

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

- Daniel Webster

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

- Daniel Webster

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

- Daniel Webster

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

- Daniel Webster

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

- Daniel Webster

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

- Daniel Webster

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

- Daniel Webster

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

- Daniel Webster

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

- Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins at the end.

- Daniel Webster

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

- Daniel Webster