Daniel Webster Quotes
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
Daniel Webster, 1782-1852, U. S. Congressman (Federalist, NH & MA) & U. S. Senator (Federalist & Whig, MA), Speech, March 15, 1837
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The phrase “Loyalty to the government is our national creed” was advocated by almost all politicians after the Civil War. There were a few communists of the left and libertarians on the right who would disagree but every president tool this position until the administration of Ronald Reagan who then many politicians claimed that the government was a problem and even an enemy of the people. Loyalty was in their view, not to be given to the Government, but to the ideas and ideals of America (as they saw them.) Since then many politicians would talk of “loyalty to America” but not use the McKinley phrase “loyalty to the government.”
At the time, the United States and Great Britain were trying to create a democratic nation in Iraq and having much difficulty.
The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant a trademark on the grounds that it was "scandalous" and "shocking."
Daniel Webster was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party.
