Daniel Webster Quotes
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I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. 'What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.'
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
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The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
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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.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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Suppose that, by some new discovery, or some improved mode of culture, only one per cent could be added to the annual results of English cultivation; this, of itself, would materially affect the comfortable subsistence of millions of human beings.
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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
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I still live.
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.