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Daniel Webster Quotes

«This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.»
«We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty»
«Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves»
«It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.»
«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»
«When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself»
«Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show»
«I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American»
«I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.»
Author: Daniel Webster (Orator, Senator, Statesman) | About: Judgement | Keywords: mistrust
«An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.»

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