I did expect a reduction [but] 40% is probably a little higher than I would have guessed. Daniel Webster More Quotes by Daniel Webster More Quotes From Daniel Webster No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country. Daniel Webster men country fall Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. Daniel Webster levers ends mind If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Daniel Webster liberty religious religion Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety. Daniel Webster safety government exercise Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society. Daniel Webster Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session. Daniel Webster Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Daniel Webster Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world. Daniel Webster I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy. Daniel Webster If we work upon 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 that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. Daniel Webster This resource strain is a function of the system we have in place. There's a huge social cost for having a Second Amendment and relatively lax gun laws. Daniel Webster us-news Not surprisingly, the findings don't make much logical sense when it comes to gun policies other than the finding that universal background checks are protective. Daniel Webster health-news A lot of the debate around guns has more to do with the culture, do you like or hate guns, and how do you interpret the Second Amendment, what's important here is that a bill is introduced that is based on a foundation of scientific research showing this will save lives. Daniel Webster us-news I'm glad that they are mobilizing to try to enact a policy that will save lives. Daniel Webster us-news When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. Daniel Webster follow human farmers civilization An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. Daniel Webster tax destroy unlimited power Wisdom begins at the end. Daniel Webster begins end wisdom Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. Daniel Webster union now liberty forever