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1 " There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange. "
― Daniel Webster
2 " 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. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy. "
3 " A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. "
4 " The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. "
― Daniel Webster , The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers And Miscellaneous Letters
5 " The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.January 1830 "
― Daniel Webster ,
6 " Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may "
7 " A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. "
8 " I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country, my God & Truth. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American. "
9 " There is always room at the top. "
10 " I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever. "
11 " We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people "
12 " Whatever makes men good christians, makes them good citizens. "
13 " History is God's providence in human affairs. "
14 " There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession "
15 " If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. "
16 " If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest "
17 " Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world. "
18 " If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. "
19 " God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. "
20 " The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions "
