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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Topic: Action
Source: None
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Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Wisdom begins at the end.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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This fearful concatenation of circumstances.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Argument--The Murder of Captain Joseph White (vol. VI, p. 88)
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F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr.
------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he
has no control.
Topic: Circumstance
Source: Argument--The Murder of Captain Joseph White (vol. VI, p. 88)
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Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
Topic: Country
Source: None
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The Avon to the Severn runs,
The Severn, to the sea,
And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad
Wide as the waters be.
Topic: Doctrine
Source: quoted in an address before the Sons of New Hampshire
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Independence now: and Independence forever.
Topic: Independence
Source: Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson
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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Man
Source: None
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Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming;
let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting
day linger and play on its summit.
Topic: Monuments
Source: Address on Laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, "Works", vol. I, p. 62
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If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass
time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to
dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them
with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their
fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time
can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Topic: Monuments
Source: Speech in Faneuil Hall
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Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Topic: Murder
Source: None
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I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an
American!
Topic: Patriotism
Source: in a speech
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Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing
but our country.
- Daniel Webster,
Topic: Patriotism
Source: in an address at the laying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill monument
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Thank God, I--I also--am an American!
Topic: Patriotism
Source: on the completion of the Bunker Hill monument
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The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book
of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from
God.
Topic: Scripture
Source: Completion of Bunker Hill Monument
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is
confession.
Topic: Suicide
Source: Argument on the Murder of Captain White
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Topic: Unity
Source: Second Speech on Foote's Resolution
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Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and
heart to this vote.
Topic: Voting
Source: Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson
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Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?
Topic: War
Source: None
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If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
Topic: War
Source: None
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That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole
earth, and uttered in all the languages belonging to all tribes
and races of men, will forever be pronounced with affectionate
gratitude by everyone in whose breast there shall arise an
aspiration for human rights and liberty.
Topic: Washington, George
Source: in a speech at the Centennial Anniversary of Washington
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That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of
thick-thronging public disasters and calamities; that name shone
amid the storm of war, a beacon light to cheer and guide the
country's friends; it flamed too like a meteor to repel her foes.
Topic: Washington, George
Source: in a speech at a public grant
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Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining
without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.
Topic: Washington, George
Source: in a speech at a public grant
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America has furnished to the world the character of Washington!
And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that
alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind.
Topic: Washington, George
Source: Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, vol. I, p. 105
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