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Daniel Webster on Freedom

1782–1852

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7 quotes

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

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.

As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies?

On the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (1843)

On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like
"another morn,
Risen on mid-noon;"
and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

speech regarding The Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Webster (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.