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• Fearful concatenation of circumstances. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830, Vol.
  vi, p. 88...
• 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....
• 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....
• 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...
• 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...
• Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 88...
• 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...
• Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority. -- Alberti