Daniel Webster Quotes
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Wisdom begins at the end.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
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No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
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Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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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…
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Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty
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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out…
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy…
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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint
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A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food
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May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
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If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into…
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