Daniel Webster Quotes - Famous Quotes by Daniel Webster
Born: 1782-01-18
Died: 1852-10-24
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
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Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
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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.
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I still live.
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I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
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If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
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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 dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
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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.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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Mind is the great lever of all things.
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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.
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There is always room at the top.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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Wisdom begins at the end.
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