Famous quotes by Statesmans

"A steady patriot of the world alone, the friend of every country but his own"

George Canning, Statesman

"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Keep cool; anger is not an argument"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

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

Daniel Webster, Statesman

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

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

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

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

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

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

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

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"The law: it has honored us; may we honor it"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

"I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

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