Quotes
Quotes - Webster
F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea, And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be.
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
Independence now: and Independence forever.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.
If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webster,
Thank God, I--I also--am an American!
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men.
I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.
