"On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."
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Members of the United States SenateAgronomistsUnited States presidential candidates, 1852United States presidential candidates, 1848United States presidential candidates, 1836
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Speech (7 May 1834); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), page 110
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Daniel Webster
1782 – 1852
US-amerikanischer Staatsmann und Jurist
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