Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster was an American politician who twice served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New Hampshire (1813–1817) and Massachusetts (1823–1827), served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1827–1841 and 1845–1850) and was twice the United States Secretary of State, under Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (1841–1843) and Millard Fillmore (1850–1852).

He and James G. Blaine were the only two people to serve as Secretary of State under three presidents. Webster also sought the Whig Party nomination for President three times: in 1836, 1840 and 1852.

Date of birth:
18th January, 1782
Date of death:
24th October, 1852
"Wisdom begins at the end."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Wisdom
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Power
"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Politics
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Power
"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Men
"Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Government
"On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Education
"Keep cool; anger is not an argument."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Anger
"The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Government
"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."
― Daniel Webster
Topic(s): Society

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