Daniel Webster Quotes
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.
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If there be any thing in my style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures.
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
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There is always room at the top.
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The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
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Spain stooped on South America, like a vulture on its prey. Every thing was force. Territories were acquired by fire and sword. Cities were destroyed by fire and sword. Hundreds of thousands of human beings fell by fire and sword. Even conversion to Christianity was attempted by fire and sword.
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
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A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
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Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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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.
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.