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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."

“Wisdom begins at the end.”

— Daniel Webster

Wisdom

All Quotes by Daniel Webster

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

— Daniel Webster

Failure

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

— Daniel Webster

Government

“Wisdom begins at the end.”

— Daniel Webster

Wisdom

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

— Daniel Webster

Power

“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

“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

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

— Daniel Webster

Government

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

— Daniel Webster

Truth

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

— Daniel Webster

Power

“Keep cool anger is not an argument.”

— Daniel Webster

Anger

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

— Daniel Webster

Men