Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
Daniel Websterwas an American statesman who twice served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Hampshireand Massachusetts, served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusettsand was twice the United States Secretary of State, under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tylerand Millard Fillmore. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1782
CitySalisbury, NH
CountryUnited States of America
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
There is always room at the top.
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.