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I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

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Daniel Webster
Age: 70 †
Born: 1782
Born: January 18
Died: 1852
Died: October 25
Diplomat
Former United States Senator
Lawyer
Politician
Salisbury
New Hampshire
Born
Live
July
Patriotic
Patriotism
Leadership
Shall
Dies
American

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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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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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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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Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
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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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One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.
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If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
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I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.
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Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.
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There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.
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We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.
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The farmers are the founders of civilization.
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If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.
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The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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The States are nations.
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There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.
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