ARE WE PROVING THE ACCURACY OF DANIEL WEBSTERS WISDOM AND FORESIGHT? Daniel Webster in a spech given Feb. 23, 1852 said the fllowing: If we and our posterity shall be true to the Christian religion, and if we and they shall live always in the fear of God, and shall respect His commandments, if we and they shall maintain just moral sentiments and such conscientious conviction of duty as shall control the heart and life, we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country; and if we maintain those institutions of government and that political union, exceeding all praise as much as it exceeds all former examples of political association, we may be sure of one thing, that while our country furnishes material for a thousand masters of the historic art, it will afford no topic for a Gibbon. It will have no decline and fall. It will go on prospering and to prosper. But if we and our posterity reject religious institutions and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 01:23:59 +0000
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