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• If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Angel, Years

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• If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

  Daniel Webster

  Land, Darkness, Degradation

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Real, Gun

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces”, p.282

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• The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Responsibility, Men

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• We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion and morality, the rights of conscience, the rights of persons, and the rights of property, may all be preserved and secured, in the most perfect manner, by a government entirely and purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be significant, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion.

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  Order, Law, Rights

  Daniel Webster (1821). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820: In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England”, p.91

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• Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Religious, Men

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.49

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• A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

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  Strong, Political, Parent

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• We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land - nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

  Daniel Webster

  Stars, Ocean, Land

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1903). “Writings and speeches hitherto uncollected, v. 1. Addresses on various occasions”

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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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  Men, Justice, Together

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books

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• If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

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  Country, Principles, Goes On

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• IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND SHALL RESPECT HIS COMMANDMENTS, IF WE AND THEY SHALL MAINTAIN JUST MORAL SENTIMENTS AND SUCH CONSCIENTIOUS CONVICTIONS OF DUTY AS SHALL CONTROL THE HEART AND LIFE, WE MAY HAVE THE HIGHEST HOPES OF THE FUTURE FORTUNES OF OUR COUNTRY. OUR COUNTRY WILL GO ON PROSPERING.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Country, Fear

  Daniel Webster (1990). “Daniel Webster: The Completest Man”, University Press of New England

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• We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.

  Daniel Webster

  People, Broken, Historical

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “Speeches in Congress”, p.413

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

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  Bible, Book, Believe

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

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  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

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• If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

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  Wisdom, Money, Divorce

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• I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.

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  Country, Government, People

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The Works”, p.336

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• Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

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  Country, Government, Hands

  Daniel WEBSTER (1834). “Speech ... on moving for leave to introduce a bill to continue the bank of the United States for six years delivered in the Senate ... March 18, 1834”, p.15

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• If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

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  Devil, Literature, Pages

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• 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 farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

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  Law, Spirit, Catching

  Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857). “The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster”, p.222, Little, Brown

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• We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

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  Power, People, Agents

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.410

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• Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

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  Men, Shoes, Gold Teeth

  Attributed in N.Y. Times, 6 Dec. 1925

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• Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

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  Men, Political, Kitchen

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• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

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  Leadership, Patriotic, July

  Speech in Senate on Compromise Bill, 17 July 1850

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• Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity.

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  Christian, Religious, Father

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.56

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