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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 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....
• 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....
• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority.
  It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions....
• Friends were made for friends, and for people to argue with!!
• People always remember the last mistake you made.