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

Daniel Webster

 American Statesman

What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare

Daniel Webster

 

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

Daniel Webster

 Authority

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

Daniel Webster

 American Statesman

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.

Daniel Webster

 

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation

Daniel Webster

 

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered

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

Daniel Webster

 American Statesman God

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly

Daniel Webster

 

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself

Daniel Webster