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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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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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Especial
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Morals
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Religion

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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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If all my talents and powers were to be taken from me by some unscrutable Providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask for be allowed to keep the Power of Speaking, for through it I would quickly recover all the rest.
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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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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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The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
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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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When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
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Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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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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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
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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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No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.
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