Daniel Webster

"From the accession of Henry the Seventh to the breaking out of the civil wars, England enjoyed much greater exemption from war, foreign and domestic, than for a long period before, and during the cont…"

"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 st…"

"Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call fo…"

"Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote."

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever."

"Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."

"“What is an oath?” . . . t is founded on a degree of consciousness that there is a Power above us that will reward our virtues or punish our vices. . . . ur system of oaths in all our courts, by which…"