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 may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity. --Daniel Webster
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.-Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. ii. p. 393.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech, June 3, 1834. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. iv. p. 47.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Daniel Webster. 1782-1852. Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846. From Webster's Works. Boston. 1857. Vol. v. p. 187.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. --Daniel Webster
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