Zitate von Daniel Webster
Ein bekanntes Zitat von Daniel Webster:
Nichts ist so mächtig wie die Wahrheit, und nur selten ist etwas so eigenartig.
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Rechtsanwalt, Politiker, Außenminister, "Webster-Ashburton-Vertrag" (USA, 1782 - 1852).
Daniel Webster · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Daniel Webster wäre heute 242 Jahre, 9 Monate, 20 Tage oder 88.682 Tage alt.
Geboren am 18.01.1782 in Salisbury
Gestorben am 24.10.1852 in Marshfield
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Weitere 49 Zitate von Daniel Webster
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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Let our object be our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever!
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He that has a spirit of detail will do better in life than many who figured beyond him in the university.
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
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If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity?
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If we work marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
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If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
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It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach.
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It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of its own power: all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests.
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Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.
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Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever!
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Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are answered.
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No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred, public principle, fidelity and honor, no mere forms of government, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.
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Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.
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On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuousand unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
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Thank God, I-I also-am an American!
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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 special revelation from God. But it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity and his equality with his fellow-man.
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The Law: It has honoured us, may we honour it.
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