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

—  Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

—  Daniel Webster

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

—  Daniel Webster

Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?

—  Daniel Webster

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

—  Daniel Webster

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

—  Daniel Webster

When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.

—  Daniel Webster

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

—  Daniel Webster

The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.

—  Daniel Webster

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

—  Daniel Webster