A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

—Daniel Webster

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About Daniel Webster

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer, statesman, and diplomat who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. secretary of state under presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one...

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Credit has done a thousand times more to enrich mankind than all the gold mines in the world. It has exalted labor, stimulated manufacture, and pushed commerce over every sea.

—Daniel Webster

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

—Daniel Webster

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

—Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

—Daniel Webster

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

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You never know how something will work out until you go for it.

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

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I suppose love is never a sure thing, no matter what words are spoken.

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I don't know what I'm doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out.

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A person who says, "I'm enlightened," probably isn't.

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