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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
Nations
States
Sovereignty
Republic
Independence

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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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Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.
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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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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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The farmers are the founders of civilization.
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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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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
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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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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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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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When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
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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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There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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The law: it has honored us may we honor it.
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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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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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