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

Quote by Daniel Webster

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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes...

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes...

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument

Keep cool; anger is not an argument

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

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...

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

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

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

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor...

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

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

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

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

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

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

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,...

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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

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

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on...

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on...

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

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

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

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

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.