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

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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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

—Daniel Webster

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

—Daniel Webster

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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

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

—Daniel Webster

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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

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Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

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