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There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster

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

Power, Tax, Destroy

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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Government, Made, Answerable

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

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
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Anger, Cool, Keep

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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Life, Away, Security

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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Forget, Important, Earth

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

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

Power, Liberty, Contest

Wisdom begins at the end.
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Wisdom, End, Begins

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
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Confession, Refuge

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
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Men, Good, Whatever

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

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

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

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

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

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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Society, Seem, Necessary

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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Country, Liberty, Cannot

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

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Liberty, Exists, Restraint

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
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Education, Free, Rest

One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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Country, Destiny

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

May, Law, Honor

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: January 18, 1782

Died: October 24, 1852

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