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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.

Daniel Webster

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Daniel Webster
Age: 70 †
Born: 1782
Born: January 18
Died: 1852
Died: October 25
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Salisbury
New Hampshire
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This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life--it prepares him for death.
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Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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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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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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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.
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Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.
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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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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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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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A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
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America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
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Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.
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