The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.