Daniel Webster: “… the instruments of their own undoing.”

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on 9/4/2011 @ 12:51 am

“…There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. … Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.

From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.

I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.”

– Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837

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