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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

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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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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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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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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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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 have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life
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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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It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
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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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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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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
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The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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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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A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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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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Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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