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There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.Daniel Webster
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I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.Daniel Webster
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.Daniel Webster
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The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.Daniel Webster
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people. January 1830Daniel Webster
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it mayDaniel Webster
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.Daniel Webster
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I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.Daniel Webster
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When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.Daniel Webster
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I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.Daniel Webster
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I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.Daniel Webster
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Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.Daniel Webster
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.Daniel Webster
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.Daniel Webster
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Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.Daniel Webster
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Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.Daniel Webster
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Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!Daniel Webster
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What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.Daniel Webster
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There is always room at the top.Daniel Webster
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.Daniel Webster
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Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.Daniel Webster
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Keep cool anger is not an argument.Daniel Webster
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.Daniel Webster
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.Daniel Webster
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.Daniel Webster
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.Daniel Webster
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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.Daniel Webster
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.Daniel Webster
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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.Daniel Webster
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Wisdom begins at the end.Daniel Webster
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.Daniel Webster
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.Daniel Webster