~ Daniel Webster Quotes ~

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

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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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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

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I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets; she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.

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It is my living sentiment and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment independence now and independence forever.

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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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The world is governed more by appearances than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

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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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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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Our destruction should it come at all will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.

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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.

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Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.

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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.

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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.