Quotes
Quotes - Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable."
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.
I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange.
Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
This fearful concatenation of circumstances.
