[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe…

Quote by Daniel Webster

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called...

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called...

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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

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

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

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

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other...

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other...

There is always room at the top.

There is always room at the top.

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

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

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely,...

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely,...

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that...

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.