Daniel Webster
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Politician📖
14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (1782-1852)
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Born
January 18, 1782
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Died
October 24, 1852
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Birthplace
Salisbury
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Nationality
United States
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Spouse(s)
Caroline LeRoy, Grace Fletcher
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Children
Fletcher Webster, Julia Webster, Edward Webster
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"Wisdom begins at the end."
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"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange."
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"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."
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"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital."
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"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."
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"Keep cool; anger is not an argument."
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"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."
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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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"There is always room at the top."
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