Wisdom begins at the end.
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!
— Daniel Webster
Education
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
“What is an oath?” . . . [I]t is founded on a degree of consciousness that there is a Power above us that will reward our virtues or punish our vices. . . . [O]ur system of oaths in all our courts, by which we hold liberty and property and all our rights, are founded on or rest on Christianity and a religious belief.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and a means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams.