Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
Daniel WebsterGentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.
Daniel WebsterWe have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Daniel WebsterMind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.
Daniel Webster