Daniel Webster
Statesman
1782-01-18
Quotes by Daniel Webster
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
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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.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
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A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
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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.
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Keep cool anger is not an argument.
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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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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
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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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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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There is always room at the top.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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Whatever makes men good Christians makes them good citizens.
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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
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