Daniel Webster Quote

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.


Speech (April 2, 1824); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume iii, page 141.


Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.