The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

—Daniel Webster

About Daniel Webster

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one...

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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

—Daniel Webster

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

—Daniel Webster

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Credit has done a thousand times more to enrich mankind than all the gold mines in the world. It has exalted labor, stimulated manufacture, and pushed commerce over every sea.

—Daniel Webster

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

—Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

—Daniel Webster

More quotations tagged with “nature”

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

—Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

—Ann Radcliffe

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

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