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United States Senator, politician, and orator (1782-1852)

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Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

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I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

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Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

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God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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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.

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I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.

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If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

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If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

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Mind is the great lever of all things.

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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.

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We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land—nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution.

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The most noteworthy thing is a lot more guns were recovered generally -- and a lot more guns recovered that were recently sold.

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To me, I think it sort of reflects a very basic thing, which is more guns, more gun crime.

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I worry a little bit about whether the part of the racial effects or differences that are reported here have something to do with a culture of sports shooting more for whites than for blacks or other non-whites.

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Found on CNN 4 years ago

This resource strain is a function of the system we have in place. There's a huge social cost for having a Second Amendment and relatively lax gun laws.

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Not surprisingly, the findings don't make much logical sense when it comes to gun policies other than the finding that universal background checks are protective.

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Found on CNN 8 years ago

A lot of the debate around guns has more to do with the culture, do you like or hate guns, and how do you interpret the Second Amendment, what's important here is that a bill is introduced that is based on a foundation of scientific research showing this will save lives.

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I did expect a reduction [but] 40% is probably a little higher than I would have guessed.

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Found on CNN 8 years ago

I'm glad that they are mobilizing to try to enact a policy that will save lives.

– Daniel Webster

Found on CNN 8 years ago

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