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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Daniel Webster
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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
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The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
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I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.
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If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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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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