A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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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. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.Daniel Webster
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Daniel Webster
Lawyers on opposite sides of a case are like the two parts of shears they cut what comes between them, but not each other.
Daniel Webster
Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it.
Daniel Webster
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Daniel Webster
The longer I live the more highly do I estimate the Christian Sabbath, and the more grateful do I feel to those who impress its importance on the community.
Daniel Webster
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