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Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

Lawyer and former United States Secretary of StateWikipedia

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Oct 27, 2026

Scott WoodwardHOST
56:42
which is the day set aside for baptisms, Wilford carries his list into the St. George's Temple.
Scott WoodwardHOST
56:48
And John D.T. McAllister baptized him as proxy for the signers of the Declaration of Independence and 45 other prominent men, including John Wesley, Christopher Columbus, Daniel Webster.
Scott WoodwardHOST
57:02
That's the dictionary guy, right?
Casey GriffithsHOST
57:05
No, no, no. Daniel Webster is a really famous legislator.
Casey GriffithsHOST
57:10
You never heard of like the devil and Daniel Webster? Yeah, I was joking.
Casey GriffithsHOST
57:14
Yeah, exactly.
Casey GriffithsHOST
57:15
Yeah, okay.
Guy BranumGUEST
8:43
But he still has a runaway headed into final.
Guy BranumGUEST
8:45
Final Jeopardy! category is Natural Wonders, The Clue, an inscription near the site of this landmark quotes Daniel Webster.
Guy BranumGUEST
8:52
God has hung out a sign to show this is where he makes men.
Guy BranumGUEST
8:56
None of our players come up with the correct response, the old man of the mountain.

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Guy BranumGUEST
14:27
I was like, I was like, it's not the old man in the mountain.
Guy BranumGUEST
14:31
Like that is just such a niche thing.
Guy BranumGUEST
14:33
I was like, but Daniel Webster is from New Hampshire and this is where men are made.
Guy BranumGUEST
14:36
But also, and also as you referenced here, the old man in the mountain crumbled.
Josh KolsrudGUEST
24:46
That's what this lawsuit is all about.
Nancy GraceHOST
24:50
Now, I know you probably know more than Daniel Webster, according to you, but you're saying conjugal means she's missing out on all that fun.
Nancy GraceHOST
24:58
Well, conjugal, the term is used to focus specifically on the sex, sexual or intimate relationship between married partners.
Nancy GraceHOST
25:08
So that's what conjugal really means.
E.G. MarshallHOST
27:58
I'll return shortly with Act Three.
E.G. MarshallHOST
28:06
It was Daniel Webster, the famous trial lawyer, who coined the phrase, fearful concatenation of circumstances.
E.G. MarshallHOST
28:12
But whatever the circumstances that caused him to say that, they could scarcely hope to match the one that Peter P.
E.G. MarshallHOST
28:18
Bell faces now.
Jeffrey RosenMODERATOR
9:07
And that phrase was picked up by James Wilson, who also helped write the part of the preamble that says, we the people of the United States, rather than its original draft, we the people of the states of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, the Providence plantation, to signal our unity as one people.
Jeffrey RosenMODERATOR
9:26
And it was Wilson who great nationalists from Daniel Webster, to Lincoln used to repudiate the idea that secession was permissible because the Declaration preceded the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution itself.
Jeffrey RosenMODERATOR
9:43
The Constitution was made in the name of one people, and therefore the Union must be preserved.
Jeffrey RosenMODERATOR
9:47
Let's now focus on the phrase, we hold these truths to be self-evident,
Aaron MahnkeHOST
29:12
By the time Nathaniel Hawthorne published a story about him in 1850, the old man had become a symbol of the state.
Aaron MahnkeHOST
29:19
New Hampshire politician Daniel Webster famously said of the rock formation, Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades.
Aaron MahnkeHOST
29:28
Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe.
Aaron MahnkeHOST
29:31
Jewelers a monster watch.
HannahHOST
0:02
I want to start with bed.
HannahHOST
0:04
In April 1804, Daniel Webster, the future senator, secretary of state, one of the most famous American politicians of the 19th century, wrote to his Dartmouth classmates, James Hervey Bingham, quote, I don't see how I can live any longer without having a friend near me.
HannahHOST
0:23
I mean, a male friend, end quote.
HannahHOST
0:26
Then he told Bingham, that he wanted to come and live with him again.
JessHOST
2:11
Friendship, romance, physical affection, and sexuality did not always sit in separate boxes.
JessHOST
2:19
Quinn follows what happened as those boxes began to form and what happened inside Mormonism once same-sex behavior stopped being simply one kind of human intimacy and became something leaders increasingly understood as a category of person, a moral problem, a medical problem, and eventually a political problem.
HannahHOST
2:43
In 1804, Daniel Webster pictured two men in one small boat.
HannahHOST
2:48
By 1962, an apostle presiding over Mormon missions in Great Britain was requiring missionaries to sleep in separate beds.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
9:01
Let me tell you, right here, too, that when you go out from here to become teachers yourselves, as a large proportion of you will go, whenever you get to a point where a student asks you a question which you are not able to answer, or asks you something about a subject on which you are not well informed, you will find it better to say frankly and honestly, Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
9:45
I believe it was Daniel Webster who said that the truly educated man was not the one who had all the knowledge in his head, but the one who knew where to look for information upon any subject upon which at any time he might want information.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
10:01
Each individual who wishes to succeed must get that kind of discipline.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
10:06
He must get such training that he will know where to go and get facts, rather than try to train himself to hold all facts in his head.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
9:01
Let me tell you, right here, too, that when you go out from here to become teachers yourselves, as a large proportion of you will go, whenever you get to a point where a student asks you a question which you are not able to answer, or asks you something about a subject on which you are not well informed, you will find it better to say frankly and honestly, Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
9:45
I believe it was Daniel Webster who said that the truly educated man was not the one who had all the knowledge in his head, but the one who knew where to look for information upon any subject upon which at any time he might want information.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
10:01
Each individual who wishes to succeed must get that kind of discipline.
Luke SartorNARRATOR
10:06
He must get such training that he will know where to go and get facts, rather than try to train himself to hold all facts in his head.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
14:52
Current events suggest that maybe Justice Scalia was overconfident about the fact that unitary executive theory wouldn't lead to those problems.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
15:00
I personally probably come down where Daniel Webster did in the 1830s.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
15:04
Here's what he said in the Senate in 1835.
Caleb NelsonGUEST
15:08
Quote, if Congress were to declare by law that the attorney general or the secretary of state should hold his office during good behavior, I am not aware of any ground on which such a law could be held unconstitutional.

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