James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Daniel Webster

Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Whatever government is not a government of law is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Farmers are the founders of civilisation.

Heaven’s gates are not so highly arched as princes’ palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

The past at least is secure.

When labour is employed, labour can consume; when it is not employed, it cannot consume.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange.