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• Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament.
  Life and power are scattered with all its beams. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p....
• Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p....
• Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
  Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day....
• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.
  We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country....
• Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p. 93...
• Thank God! I--I also--am an American! -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p.
  107...
• The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p. 102...
• America has furnished to the world the character of Washington.
  And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind....
• When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Remarks on Agriculture, Jan 13, 1840, p. 457...