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The States are nations.

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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
Sovereignty
Republic
Independence
Nations
States

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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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All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.
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Thank God, I also am an American!
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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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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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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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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
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If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.
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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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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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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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Keep cool anger is not an argument.
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The law: it has honored us may we honor it.
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I still live. Pretty.
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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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.
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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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