A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. Daniel Webster More Quotes by Daniel Webster More Quotes From Daniel Webster If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism. Daniel Webster angel country years 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. Daniel Webster degradation land darkness Faith puts God between us and our circumstances. Daniel Webster circumstances 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 president wish men The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man. Daniel Webster responsibility men book 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. Daniel Webster devil pages literature Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world. Daniel Webster looks past world We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. Daniel Webster agents power people Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster men civilization art No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States. Daniel Webster military integrity war A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. Daniel Webster 4th-of-july freedom country The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions Daniel Webster libertarian-party freedom gun The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. Daniel Webster 4th-of-july government people We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion. Daniel Webster rights law order There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property. Daniel Webster wisdom class hands There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. Daniel Webster honesty powerful truth Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended. Daniel Webster gun strong real The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. Daniel Webster earth-day sea science There is always room at the top. Daniel Webster life-changing success motivational The law: it has honored us; may we honor it. Daniel Webster honor law may
