The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
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Daniel Webster
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The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Diplomatic Papers and Miscellaneous Letters
Webster and Hayne's speeches in the United States Senate, on Mr. Foot's resolution of January 1830; also, Daniel Webster's speech in the United States Senate, March 7, 1850, on the slavery compromise.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. 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. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.
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.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
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.
Keep cool anger is not an argument.
Liberty and Union now and forever one and inseparable.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide and suicide is confession.
There is always room at the top.
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.