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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American statesman who twice served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Hampshire (1813–1817) and Massachusetts (1823–1827), served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1827–1841 and 1845–1850) and was twice the United States Secretary of State, under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (1841–1843) and Millard Fillmore (1850–1852). Along with James G. Blaine, he is one of only two people who have served as Secretary of State under three presidents. He also sought the Whig Party nomination for President three times: in 1836, 1840 and 1852.
Below are top 20 best Daniel Webster Quotes And Saying.
Daniel Webster Quotes
1. God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
― Daniel Webster
2. The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
― Daniel Webster
3. Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
― Daniel Webster
4. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
― Daniel Webster
5. A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
― Daniel Webster
6. There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
― Daniel Webster
7. Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
― Daniel Webster
8. Conscience, in the cause of religion and the worship of the Deity, prepares the mind to act and to suffer beyond almost all other causes.
― Daniel Webster
9. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.
― Daniel Webster
10. Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth.
― Daniel Webster
11. It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future
― Daniel Webster
12. There is always room at the top.
― Daniel Webster
13. 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
14. Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees
― Daniel Webster
15. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
― Daniel Webster
16. The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
― Daniel Webster
17. I still live.
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18. The past is at least secure.
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19. 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
20. One country, one constitution, one destiny.
― Daniel Webster
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