"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it." ― Daniel Webster Topic(s): God More From Daniel Webster "The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it." "The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power." "Keep cool; anger is not an argument." More In God "Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand."― Helen Hunt Jackson "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."― James Russell Lowell "The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."― Victor Hugo