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Former United States Senator

Daniel Webster, a former United States Senator, was born on January 18, 1782, and passed away on October 24, 1852. He was a renowned lawyer, orator, and politician in American history, known for his eloquent speeches and steadfast convictions.

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“On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.”

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Author:Daniel Webster

“One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.”

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Book:THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

“If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.”

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Book:The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster

“The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.”

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Book:An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

Source: An address delivered before the New York Historical Society, Feb. 23, 1852

“The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.”

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Book:The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.”

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Author:Daniel Webster

“Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.”

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of 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 controversy between the houses of York and Lancaster. These years of peace were favorable to commerce and the arts. Commerce and the arts augmented general and individual knowledge; and knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.”

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.”

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Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster