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Daniel Webster “Constitution has enemies…If we recklessly destroy the Constitution…catastrophe may bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
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 Considered one of the five greatest Senators in U.S. history, Daniel Webster’s statue stands in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, placed there by the State of New Hampshire.
His career spanned almost four decades, serving as Secretary of State for Presidents William Harrison, John Tyler and Millard Fillmore. Daniel Webster was born JANUARY 18, 1782, on a farm in New Hampshire.
He attended Dartmouth College and became the highest paid attorney of his day. He negotiated the Webster-Ashburton Treaty which set the nation’s Northeast boundary and suppressed the African slave trade, stating:
“Traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice.”
 Webster stated December 22, 1820:
“The African slave-trader is a pirate and a felon; and in the sight of Heaven, an offender far beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt … If there be … any participation in this traffic, let us pledge ourselves here, upon the rock of Plymouth, to extirpate and destroy it … I invoke the ministers of our religion, that they proclaim its denunciation of these crimes, and add its solemn sanctions to the authority of human laws. If the pulpit be silent whenever or wherever there may be a sinner bloody with this guilt within the hearing of its voice, the pulpit is false to its trust.”
Webster signed a petition protesting the Federal Government’s Indian Removal Act.
When South Carolina threatened nullification, Daniel Webster stated:
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”  The U.S. Capitol Building has displayed the quotes:
“Liberty and union, one and inseparable.”- Daniel Webster
“One country, one Constitution, one destiny.”- Daniel Webster
 “When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”- Daniel Webster
“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests and see whether we also in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”- Daniel Webster
 The Library of Congress’ Jefferson Building has on the ceiling of the Northeast Pavilion, West Lunette, the quotes:
LET OUR OBJECT BE OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY,
AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY Daniel Webster, Address at Charlestown, Mass., June 17, 1825. Cornerstone Ceremonies for Bunker Hill Monument. THANK GOD, I ALSO AM AN AMERICAN!
Daniel Webster, Address at Charlestown, Mass., June 17, 1843. Dedication of Bunker Hill Monument. 
At the age of 20, Daniel Webster served as the headmaster of Fryeburg Academy in Fryeburg, Maine, where he delivered a Fourth of July Oration in 1802: “If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, ‘Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain …'” Webster continued: “The history of the world is before us … The civil, the social, the Christian virtues are requisite to render us worthy the continuation of that government which is the freest on earth … We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people.
Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.” Get the book Change to Chains: The 6000 Year Quest for Global Control Daniel Webster stated:
“God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
At the Bicentennial Celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Secretary of State Daniel Webster stated December 22, 1820:
“We are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid; where the hearths and altars of New England were first placed; where Christianity, and civilization … made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country … ‘If God prosper us,’ might have been the … language of our fathers, when they landed upon this Rock, ‘… we shall here begin a work which shall last for ages … We shall fill this region of the great continent … with civilization and Christianity’ … Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.”
Daniel Webster stated at the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843:
“I mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no other platform. I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be MY COUNTRY’s, my God’s, and Truth’s. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.”  At the age of 70, just eight months before his death, Daniel Webster gave an address, “The Dignity and Importance of History,” to the New York Historical Society, February 23, 1852, commemorating Washington’s Birthday:
“We may trust, that Heaven will not forsake us, nor permit us to forsake ourselves.
We must strengthen ourselves, and gird up our loins with new resolution … in the support of the Constitution, prepare to meet manfully … whatever of difficulty, or of danger … or of sacrifice, the Providence of God may call upon us to meet. … Are we of this generation so derelict, have we so little of the blood of our revolutionary fathers coursing through our veins, that we cannot preserve, what they achieved? The world will cry out ‘shame’ upon us, if we show ourselves unworthy, to be the descendants of those great and illustrious men, who fought for their liberty, and secured it to their posterity, by the Constitution of the United States … We have a great and wise Constitution. We have grown, flourished, and prospered under it, with a degree of rapidity, unequaled in the history of the world. Founded on the basis of equal civil rights, its provisions secure perfect equality and freedom; those who live under it are equal, and enjoy the same privileges …”  
Webster added: “The Constitution has enemies, secret and professed … They have hot heads and cold hearts. They are rash, reckless, and fierce for change, and with no affection for the existing institutions of their country … Other enemies there are, more cool, and with more calculation. These have a deeper and more fixed and dangerous purpose … … There are those in the country, who profess, in their own words, even to hate the Constitution … Friends of the Constitution must rally and unite … with immovable firmness, like a band of brothers … looking only to the great object set before them, the preservation of the Constitution, bequeathed to them by their ancestors. They must gird up their loins for the work. It is a duty which they owe to these ancestors, and to the generations which are to succeed them … I give … my heart and hand, my entire cooperation to all good men … who are willing to stand by the Constitution …”
Daniel Webster concluded: “I hardly know … the manner of our political death … We shall die no lingering death … An earthquake would shake the foundations of the globe, pull down the pillars of heaven, and bury us at once in endless darkness …” 
Referencing the fall of Babylon spoken in Scripture (Revelation 18:2; 14:8; Isaiah 21:9; Jeremiah 50:2; 51:8; Zachariah 5), Daniel Webster warned: “Such may be the fate of this country and its institutions. May I never live, to see that day!
May I not survive to hear any apocalyptic angel, crying through the heavens, with such a voice as announced the fall of Babylon, ‘Ἔπεσεν, ἔπεσεν, Αμερικη ἡ μεγάλη, καὶ ἐγένετο κατοικητήριον δαιμονίων, καὶ φυλακὴ παντὸς πνεύματος ἀκαθάρτου.'” (Greek: “Is fallen, is fallen, America the Great has become a habitation of demons and a hold for every unclean spirit.”)
Daniel Webster warned in his address to the Historical Society of New York, February 23, 1852:
“If we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion,
if we and they shall live always in the fear of God, and shall respect His commandments,
if we and they shall maintain just moral sentiments and such conscientious convictions of duty as shall control the heart and life,
we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country …
… BUT if we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution, which holds us together,
no man can tell, how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.“  When Daniel Webster was once asked what the most profound thought was that ever passed through his mind, he responded:
“My accountability to God.”  Rise of the Tyrant – Volume 2 of Change to Chains: The 6,000 Year Quest for Global Power Schedule Bill Federer for informative interviews & captivating PowerPoint presentations: 314-502-8924 [email protected]
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