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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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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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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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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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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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Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.
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On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.
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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me but my heart has always assured and reassured me that
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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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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life
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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
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The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.
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Keep cool anger is not an argument.
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What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
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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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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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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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A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
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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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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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