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Daniel Webster
January 18, 1782 - October 24, 1852
Nationality: American
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: American Statesman

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

   

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

   

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

   

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

   

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.

   

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

   

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

   

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

   

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

   

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

   

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

   

Wisdom begins at the end.

   

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

   

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

   

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

   

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

   

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