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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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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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It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .
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There is always room at the top.
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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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A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me but my heart has always assured and reassured me that
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Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
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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 farmers are the founders of civilization.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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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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The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.
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What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
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Keep cool anger is not an argument.
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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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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life
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