Daniel Webster - The contest for ages has been to rescue...

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

Biography

Author Profession: Statesman

Nationality: American

Born: January 18, 1782

Died: October 24, 1852

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Topics

Ages, Been, Contest, Executive, Executive Power, Grasp, Has-Been, Liberty, Power, Rescue

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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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Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Suicide Confession Refuge

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

Truth Nothing Strange Powerful

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

People Government Made For The People

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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There is always room at the top.

Motivational Always Top Room

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

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Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Good Men Whatever Citizens

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

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

People Liberty Taught Been

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

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

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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

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