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Daniel Webster

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The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.


— Daniel Webster


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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.


— 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.


— Daniel Webster


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


— Daniel Webster


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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.


— Daniel Webster


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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.


— Daniel Webster


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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.


— Daniel Webster


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


— Daniel Webster


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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.


— Daniel Webster


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The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.


— Daniel Webster


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During his 40 years in national politics Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years (representing New Hampshire) in the Senate for 19 years (representing Massachusetts) and was appointed the Secretary of State under three presidents Webster took part in several key U. He was a spokesman for modernization banking and industry but not for the common people who composed the base of his enemies in Jacksonian Democracy. Webster was considered the Northern member of a trio known as the "Great Triumvirate" with his colleagues Henry Clay from the West (Kentucky) and John C.

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