- The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God. But is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow man ~Daniel Webster
The Bible Is A Book . . .
Live always in the fear of God . . .
- “If we and our posterity . . . live always in the fear of God and shall respect His Commandments…we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country . . . But if we . . . neglect religious instruction and authority; violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” ~Daniel Webster 1852, Addressing the New York Historical Society
Daniel Webster
via: American Minute w/Bill Federer
One of the five greatest Senators in U.S. history, the State of New Hampshire placed his statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. His career spanned almost four decades, serving as Secretary of State for Presidents William Harrison, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore.
His name was Daniel Webster, born JANUARY 18, 1782. From a New Hampshire farm, he attended Dartmouth College and became the highest paid attorney of his day. He fought the slave trade and negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, which set the nation’s Northeast boundary. When South Carolina threatened nullification, he stated:<!–more–
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”
Addressing the New York Historical Society, 1852, Daniel Webster stated:
“If we and our posterity…live always in the fear of God and shall respect His Commandments…we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country . . . But if we . . . neglect religious instruction and authority; violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Hold on to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands . . .
- “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.” –U.S. Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
