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Daniel Webster

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A name that surfaces again and again in collections of great quotes, Daniel Webster clearly understood the power of language. Their thinking spans from Power to Government, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Browse 13 quotes by Daniel Webster that cover ground from Power, Government, Wisdom, Truth, and Society. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "Keep cool anger is not an argument."

“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

Society

All Quotes by Daniel Webster

“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”

— Daniel Webster

Education

“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”

— Daniel Webster

Politics

“Keep cool anger is not an argument.”

— Daniel Webster

Anger

“Wisdom begins at the end.”

— Daniel Webster

Wisdom

“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

Society

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

— Daniel Webster

Power

“Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.”

— Daniel Webster

Failure

“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”

— Daniel Webster

Men

“Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.”

— Daniel Webster

Government

“There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.”

— Daniel Webster

Truth

“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.”

— Daniel Webster

Power

“The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”

— Daniel Webster

Government