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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....
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 117...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847, Vol.
  ii, p. 394...
• I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well.
  But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable....
• Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...