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
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster
Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. – Daniel Webster
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. – Daniel Webster
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith