Daniel Webster on Liberty
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“Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.”
“If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.”
“The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.”
“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
“On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn, Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.”
“I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open, on golden hinges, to lovers of Union as well as of Liberty.”
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