The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

- Daniel Webster

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws …

- Daniel Webster

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

- Daniel Webster

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

- Daniel Webster

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of …

- Daniel Webster

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

- Daniel Webster

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

- Daniel Webster

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

- Daniel Webster

There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From th…

- Daniel Webster