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The law: it has honored us may we honor it.
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
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Salisbury
New Hampshire
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The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
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What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
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Thank God, I also am an American!
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It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .
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The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
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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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If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
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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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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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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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Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
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Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.
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The farmers are the founders of civilization.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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