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• 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...
• When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Unio
  on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood....
• 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...
• I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none.
  There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves....
• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847, Vol....
• 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, Vol. iv, p. 47...
• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• Fearful concatenation of circumstances. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol.
  vi, p. 88...