The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality. – Daniel Webster
This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions. – Daniel Webster
The peoples government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. – Daniel Webster
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. – Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. – Daniel Webster
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. – Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. – Daniel Webster
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. – Daniel Webster
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. – Daniel Webster
Keep cool anger is not an argument. – Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins at the end. – Daniel Webster
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. – Daniel Webster
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. – 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
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. – Daniel Webster
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! – Daniel Webster
