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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American politician who represented New Hampshire (1813–1817) and Massachusetts (1823–1827) in the United States House of Representatives; served as a Senator from Massachusetts (1827–1841, 1845–1850); and was the United States Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison (1841), John Tyler (1841–1843), and Millard Fillmore (1850–1852). He and James G. Blaine are the only people to serve as Secretary of State under three presidents. Webster also sought the Whig Party nomination for President in 1836, 1840, and 1852.

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Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.

Faith, Gospel, Heart, Jesus, Philosophical, Reality

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

Baptize, Government, Law, Leave, Left, Rights

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

Employment, Gives, Giving, Health, Sobriety

I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

Believe, Bible, Book, Cover, Instruction, Philosophers

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

Circumstances, Compromise, Places, Politics, Slave, Slavery

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

4Th Of July, Capital, Energy, Failure, Frequently

Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.

Among, Character, Cherished, Light, Obscuration, Stars

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will' undertake its safety, and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.

Country, Government, Hands, Ruin, Safety

No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?. . . [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.

Conquests, Constitutional, Integrity, Military, War

There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another. . . If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

Class, Hands, Power, Property, Wisdom

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

Buried, Dead, Propose

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

Capital, Country, Independent, Labor, Pride

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Associated, Condition, Giving, Men, Special, Weakest

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

4Th Of July, Answerable, Government, People

It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.

Love, College, Dartmouth, Sir, Small

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Capable, Earthquakes, Lightening, Men, Shaking, World

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

House, Invention, Inventor, Men, Right, Sense

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

Beings, Exercise, Government, Governments, Safety, Undoubtedly

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 the parting day linger and play on its summit!

Country, Gratitude, Light, Morning, Play, Shore

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Currency, Disordered, Evil, Greatest, Political

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