Daniel Webster: Quotes about God

Daniel Webster was Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of State for three United States presidents.. Explore interesting quotes on god.

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“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

Daniel Webster

Speech (3 June 1834); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume iv, page 47

Love , God

“If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble to dust; but if we work on men's immortal minds, if we impress on them with high principles, the just fear of God and love for their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.”

Daniel Webster

Address Delivered by the Hon. Daniel Webster in Faneuil Hall (22 May 1852), at the Request of the City Council of Boston; City Document No. 31. Boston: J.H. Eastburn (1852)

Love , Men , God , Fear

“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.”

Daniel Webster

Source: Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 62
Context: 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. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

God , Feeling , Dependency , Gratitude

“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

Source: On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 102

God , Books , Faith , Religion

“In our day and generation let us seek to raise and improve the moral sentiment, so that we may look, not for a degraded, but for an elevated and improved future…. And then, when honored and decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one shall speak to the other of its objects, the purposes of its construction, and the great and glorious events with which it is connected, there shall rise from every youthful breast the ejaculation, "Thank God, I — I also — am an American!"”

Daniel Webster

Source: On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 107

God , Youth , Age , Future

“It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.”

Daniel Webster

Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 136