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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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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 hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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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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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
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The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
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Those who do not look upon themselves as a link, connecting the past with the future, do not perform their duty to the world.
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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
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The States are nations.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
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I still live. Pretty.
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The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death
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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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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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I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence it almost appears a Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our 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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I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
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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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