Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.
Daniel WebsterA representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
Daniel WebsterFinally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence through all their institutions, civil, political, or literary. Let us cherish these sentiments, and extend this influence still more widely; in full conviction that that is the happiest society which partakes in the highest degree of the mild and peaceful spirit of Christianity.
Daniel Webster