Daniel Webster warned of attacks on the Constitution: "Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism."
In Observations on the New Constitution, 1788, Mercy Otis Warren stated:
"Monarchy is ... by no means calculated for a nation that is ... tenacious of their liberty - animated with a disgust to tyranny - and inspired with the generous feeling of patriotism ...
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation."
August 22, 1935, President Roosevelt greeted by telephone the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the first permanent settlement in Missouri:
"The history of the town of Sainte Genevieve eloquently testifies to the fortitude of those pioneers who built their homes on the western bank of the Mississippi ... We admire that Christian courage which refused to be daunted by Indian depredations and massacres
"The Young Turkish gang who gained power when they had deposed Abd-ul-Hamid, have surpassed even that monster of cruelty in their slaughter of the unoffending Armenians ...
is now, oppressing or massacring, slaughtering or driving from their homes, the Christian population of Greek or Bulgarian stock ... and Cilicia, and Syria..."
