DWDaniel Webster

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Daniel Webster

Life dates: 1782 AD — 1852 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1817 AD

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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02c. 1817 AD

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit!

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03c. 1817 AD

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day.

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04c. 1817 AD

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

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05c. 1817 AD

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

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06c. 1817 AD

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

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07c. 1817 AD

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

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08c. 1817 AD

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

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09c. 1817 AD

America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.

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10c. 1817 AD

Thank God! I—I also—am an American!

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11c. 1817 AD

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.

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12c. 1817 AD

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.

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13c. 1817 AD

Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.

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14c. 1817 AD

Washington is in the clear upper sky.

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15c. 1817 AD

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.

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16c. 1817 AD

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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17c. 1817 AD

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

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18c. 1817 AD

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.

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19c. 1817 AD

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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20c. 1817 AD

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

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21c. 1817 AD

I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

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22c. 1817 AD

Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

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23c. 1817 AD

The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.

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24c. 1817 AD

I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

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