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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
Independence
Nations
States
Sovereignty
Republic

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Thank God, I also am an American!
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..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.
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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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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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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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Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
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I still live. Pretty.
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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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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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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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 believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.
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If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
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What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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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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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
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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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