Daniel Webster Quotes

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• There is always room at the top.
• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
• An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
• The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
• The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
• 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…
• A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
• There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
• The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
• Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
• How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
• 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.
• Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
• On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
• The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

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