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• I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

  Daniel Webster

  Buried, Propose

  "Palin’s “Role of the Vice President” Gaffe: An Historical Perspective" by Chris Rodda, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

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• Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

  Daniel Webster

  Jesus, Philosophical, Heart

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• If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.

  Daniel Webster

  Children, Responsibility, Blessing

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”

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• The man is free who is protected from injury.

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Men, Injury

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• The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

  Daniel Webster

  Interesting, Elements, Agents

  Daniel WEBSTER (1852). “An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852”, p.7

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• The States are nations.

  Daniel Webster

  Independence, Republic, States

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• The farmers are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Civilization, Agriculture, Founders

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• There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Earthquakes, Revolution

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• The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Depth, Belief

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.32

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• I still live. Pretty.

  Daniel Webster

  Death, Near Death, Near Death Experience

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• There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Men

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 24 Mar. 1831

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• I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

  Daniel Webster

  Slavery, Politics, Compromise

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• If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

  Daniel Webster

  Religious, Religion, Liberty

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “The Works of Daniel Webster ...”, p.75

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• If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

  Daniel Webster

  Rights, Government, Law

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• I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

  Daniel Webster

  Angel, Sky, Thank God

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.254, Beard Books

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• No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

  Daniel Webster

  Reality, Men, Preparation

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• I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.

  Daniel Webster

  Heart, Past, Boston

  Second Speech on Foote's Resolution, U.S. Senate, 26 Jan. 1830. Often misquoted as "Massachusetts, there she stands."

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• Thank God, I also am an American!

  Daniel Webster

  Thank God

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.20

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• The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Men, Fit

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• Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Independent, Pride

  Daniel Webster (1825). “A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England. ...”

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• Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.204

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• Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Justice, Civilized Nations

  Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845

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• All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

  Daniel Webster

  Atheism, Creeds, Uncertain

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wholesomeness

  Speech at Charleston Bar Dinner, Charleston, S.C., 10 May 1847

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• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Giving, Special

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