Daniel Webster

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

Sea of upturned faces.

The most important thought I ever had was that of my individual responsibility to God.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

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

IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

Fearful concatenation of circumstances.