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Daniel Webster Quotes

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

"Wisdom begins at the end."
Wisdom

"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."
Politics

"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned."

"How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems."

"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."

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

"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."

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."

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

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

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

"I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger."

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

"There is always room at the top."

"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."
Society

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."

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