{"id":1813,"date":"2011-09-04T00:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T05:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2011-09-04T00:51:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T05:51:57","slug":"daniel-webster-the-instruments-of-their-own-undoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Webster:  &#8220;&#8230; the instruments of their own undoing.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Daniel Webster, June 1, 1837<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}