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Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?

— Daniel Webster

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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.

Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826)

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

On the Agriculture of England (1840)

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