Daniel Webster: Quotes about love

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 love.
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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

“Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. he did this because loved christians and wanted everyone to be one.”

Daniel Webster

Speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts (22 December 1820)

Love , Men

“It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!”

Daniel Webster

Oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, March 10, 1818, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1918)

Love

“If there be any thing in my style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures.”

Daniel Webster

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 33

Love , Parent

“From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.”

Daniel Webster

Source: On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843), p. 93

Love , War , Peace , Art