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Daniel Webster Quotes: If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest
         

If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest


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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.



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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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