Daniel Webster

"Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens."

"I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American."

"I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves."

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

"I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American."

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue."

"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may"

"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils."

"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange."