[arfingcat]

Does anyone know where or when Daniel Webster made this statement? It's in the category of "a great man once said" all over the internet. I'd like to toss it around because it seems pertinent, but I have this thing about confirming a quote.

[hinckley buzzard]

Can be found in "Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster", by Edwin Whipple,page 393...

[ravenwolf]

Does anyone know where or when Daniel Webster made this statement?

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I don,t know any thing about it except it would not take a great man to say something so simple and true, but just some one who is more apt with words than what i am.

[BipolarBob]

WHERE ARE WE GOING and what’s the deal with the handbasket?