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About Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (18 January 1782 β 25 October 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as a Senator and as Secretary of State. Famed for his ability as an orator, Webster was one of the most important figures in the Second Party System from the 1820s to the 1850s.
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βI still live.β
βWashington is in the clear upper sky.β
βFearful concatenation of circumstances.β
βLiberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.β
βWhatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.β
βI was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!β
βThere is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.β
βA strong impression that something must be done, is the origin of many bad measures.β
βThere is nothing so powerful as truth β and often nothing so strange.β
βInconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.β
βThe people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.β
βIt is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,βIndependence now and Independence forever.β
βThe Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.β
βVenerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.β
βThe gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.β
βIf there be any thing in my style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love of the Scriptures.β
βHe smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.β
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Daniel Webster on Liberty 6 quotes
βLiberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.β
Daniel Webster on Government 6 quotes
βHe touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.β
Daniel Webster on Patriotism 4 quotes
βThank God, IβI alsoβam an American!β
Daniel Webster on Work 3 quotes
βThey are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doing machines.β
Daniel Webster on United States Constitution 2 quotes
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βThere is nothing so powerful as truth; and often nothing so strange.β
Daniel Webster on Knowledge 2 quotes
βKnowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.β
Daniel Webster on Mind 2 quotes
βMind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered.β
Daniel Webster on Monuments 2 quotes
βLet it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.β
Daniel Webster on Credit 2 quotes
βHe smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.β
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Daniel Webster on George Washington 4 quotes
βAmerica 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.β
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Stephen Vincent BenΓ©t on Daniel Webster
βIt's a story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead β or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster β Dan'l Webster!" the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was a youngster.β
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βIf we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.β
βHold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.β
About Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (18 January 1782 β 25 October 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as a Senator and as Secretary of State. Famed for his ability as an orator, Webster was one of the most important figures in the Second Party System from the 1820s to the 1850s.
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