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• Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830, p. 342...
• The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830, p. 321...
• I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none.
  There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves....
• The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830, p. 303...
• I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830, p. 316...
• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.
  We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country....
• I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech, July 17, 1850, p. 437...
• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847, Vol....
• He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On Pitt's First Speech, Feb....