A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
¶ (Attributed)
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Daniel Webster (1782-1852) American statesman, lawyer, orator
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
¶ Speech, Bangor, Maine (25 Aug 1835)
Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it;… It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumble, if its lofty pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decorations be all covered by the dust of the valley. All these might be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government? Who shall rear again the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty?… No, if these columns fall, they will be raised not again…. they will be the remnants of a more glorious edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw, the edifice of constitutional American liberty.
¶ “The Character of Washington,” speech on G. Washington centennial, Washington, D.C. (22 Feb 1832)
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