Daniel Webster: Quotes about homeland

Daniel Webster was Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of State for three United States presidents.. Explore interesting quotes on country.
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“Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.”

Source: Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 78
Context: Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration for ever!

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”

First reported in the Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bible Society (1870), p. 27. This is actually a misquote combining phrases from different lines in an address delivered by Webster to the New York Historical Society on February 23, 1852.
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“One country, one constitution, one destiny.”

Speech (15 March 1837); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), page 349

“Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.”

Speech (2 April 1824); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume iii, page 141