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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847, Vol....
• Sea of upturned faces. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, Sept, 30, 1842, Vol. ii, p. 117
• Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, April, 1824, Vol. iii, p. 141...
• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity.
  If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery....
• Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...
• Fearful concatenation of circumstances. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol.
  vi, p. 88...
• Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846, Vol. v, p. 187...
• There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol....
• Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, p. 146...