| When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. |
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- Daniel Webster |
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| Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet. |
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- Daniel Webster |
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| The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. |
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- Daniel Webster |
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| Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money. |
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- Daniel Webster |
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| We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people. |
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- Daniel Webster |
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| Wisdom begins at the end. |
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- Daniel Webster |
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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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- Daniel Webster |
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