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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Levers, Ends

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.

  Daniel Webster

  Feet, Rocks, Perfect

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 10 Mar. 1831

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Discovery, Ideas

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.60

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• It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Law, Government

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.207

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• It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

  Daniel Webster

  Men, House, Invention

  "The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster".

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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. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Race, Long

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

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• Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

  Daniel Webster

  Inspirational, Character, Personal Worth

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Speeches delivered on various public occasions”, p.490

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• Instruct the mothers of the French people.

  Daniel Webster

  Mother, People

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.479, Beard Books

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• The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

  Daniel Webster

  Book, Religion, Doctrine

  Daniel Webster (1825). “An address delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. ...”

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• When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

  Daniel Webster

  Robes, Judicial, Touched

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “The Works of Daniel Webster ...”, p.201

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• Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

  Daniel Webster

  Faith, Heart, Vastness

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

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• Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.

  Daniel Webster

  Stars, Character, Names

  Daniel Webster (1860). “The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address”, p.432

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• On the light of Liberty you saw arise the light of Peace, like "another morn," "Risen on mid-noon;" and the sky on which you closed your eye was cloudless.

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  Eye, Light, Sky

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.61

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• A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Government, Law

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• A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

  Daniel Webster

  Evil, Political, Currency

  Daniel Webster (1832). “Mr. Webster's Speeches in the Senate Upon the Question of Renewing the Charter of the Bank of the United States”, p.5

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• Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

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  Life, Men, Heaven

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

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• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!

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  Country, Gratitude, Morning

  Daniel Webster (1843). “An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843”, p.59

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• From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, War, Years

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.143, Beard Books

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