What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it What use have we for such a country I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Ocean one inch neare
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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
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
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