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“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.”
― Daniel Webster

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“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ”
― Daniel Webster

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“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
― Daniel Webster

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“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”
― Daniel Webster, The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers And Miscellaneous Letters

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“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”
― Daniel Webster

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