"A strong impression that something must be done, is the origin of many bad measures."
— Daniel Webster

January 1, 1970

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Speech On the Bank of the United States, delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan. 2, 1815; reported in Speeches and Forensic Arguments (1848) by Daniel Webster, vol. 1, p. 225