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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

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Daniel Webster
Age: 70 †
Born: 1782
Born: January 18
Died: 1852
Died: October 25
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New Hampshire
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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
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..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.
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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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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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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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