| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Daniel Webster |
| | | Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust. | 1 |
| Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. | 2 |
| What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. | 3 |
| Whatever government is not a government of law is a despotism, let it be called what it may. | 4 |
| Farmers are the founders of civilisation. | 5 |
| Heaven’s gates are not so highly arched as princes’ palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. | 6 |
| Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. | 7 |
| The past at least is secure. | 8 |
| When labour is employed, labour can consume; when it is not employed, it cannot consume. | 9 |
| Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man’s life. | 10 |
| There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange. | 11 | | |
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