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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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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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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 bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
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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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If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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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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A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
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Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
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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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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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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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If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
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Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.
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The farmers are the founders of civilization.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life
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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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