“The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.”

— Daniel Webster

Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), Vol. II, p. 394

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Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – … 1782–1852

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