 | Daniel Webster - 1835 - 764 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety ; and nothing can save it,...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. Would to God, Sir, that I could draw around me all these twelve millions of people ; would to God,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 578 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it,...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. Would to God, Sir, that I could draw around me all these twelve millions of people ! Would to God that... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 578 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety ; and nothing can save it,...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. Would to God, Sir, that I could draw around me all these twelve millions of people ! Would to God that... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 624 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety, and nothing can save it,...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. " Would to God, sir, that I could draw around me all these twelve millions of people ! Would to God... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 618 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety, and nothing can save it,...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. public concerns — their own honest devotion to the welfare of the State. I would say to them that... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1886 - 246 pages
...PUBLIC CONCERNS, PATRIOTIC ATTENTION TO. — Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety ; and nothing can save it,...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. Would to God, sir, that I could draw around me all these twelve millions of people ! Would to God that... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...Senate, May 7, 1834. The Presidential Protest. Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. 2177 Daniel Webster : Speech, United State* Senate, March 18, 1834. The Continuance of the Bank Charter.... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety ; and nothing can save it...they leave that safety in any hands but their own. "Would to God, Sir, that I could draw around me all the twelve millions of people ! Would to God that... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 pages
...bear. But it is not a condition for despair. Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety ; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hand's but their own. Would to God, Sir, that I could draw around me all the twelve millions of people... | |
 | 1920 - 548 pages
...Massachusetts believed with Daniel Webster that "Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it...they leave that safety in any hands but their own." A more recent concrete example of the independence of the individual voter and of the inability of... | |
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Nothing will ruin the country, if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it, if they leave that safety in any hands but their own. 
