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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
DANIEL WEBSTER Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is ...
DANIEL WEBSTER While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and...
DANIEL WEBSTER The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws ...
DANIEL WEBSTER The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the n...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally...
DANIEL WEBSTER He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
DANIEL WEBSTER If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples...
DANIEL WEBSTER Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may ta...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doi...
DANIEL WEBSTER He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touche...
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
DANIEL WEBSTER Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commer...
DANIEL WEBSTER Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enr...
DANIEL WEBSTER We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts o...
DANIEL WEBSTER There is always room at the top.
DANIEL WEBSTER The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God...
DANIEL WEBSTER Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
DANIEL WEBSTER Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with th...
DANIEL WEBSTER A mass of men equals a mass of opinions.
DANIEL WEBSTER The past is at least secure.
DANIEL WEBSTER The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to see...
DANIEL WEBSTER I see nothing in it new and valuable. What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
DANIEL WEBSTER Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
DANIEL WEBSTER Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
DANIEL WEBSTER Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capi...
DANIEL WEBSTER There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
DANIEL WEBSTER When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilizati...
DANIEL WEBSTER Justice, Sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings...
DANIEL WEBSTER The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a...
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
DANIEL WEBSTER Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has...
DANIEL WEBSTER This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute indep...
DANIEL WEBSTER Wisdom begins at the end.
DANIEL WEBSTER If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts ...
DANIEL WEBSTER Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents f...
DANIEL WEBSTER F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in ci...
DANIEL WEBSTER This fearful concatenation of circumstances.
DANIEL WEBSTER America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions h...
DANIEL WEBSTER Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration,...
DANIEL WEBSTER That name was a power to rally a nation in the hour of thick-thronging public disasters and calamit...
DANIEL WEBSTER That name descending with all time, spreading over the whole earth, and uttered in all the language...
DANIEL WEBSTER If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temp...
DANIEL WEBSTER Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the mornin...
DANIEL WEBSTER Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings...
DANIEL WEBSTER Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one co...
DANIEL WEBSTER The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion,...
DANIEL WEBSTER Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.
DANIEL WEBSTER Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
DANIEL WEBSTER Independence now: and Independence forever.
DANIEL WEBSTER I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!
DANIEL WEBSTER There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
DANIEL WEBSTER There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession
DANIEL WEBSTER Thank God, I--I also--am an American!
DANIEL WEBSTER Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webs...
DANIEL WEBSTER Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
DANIEL WEBSTER Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote ...
DANIEL WEBSTER The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
DANIEL WEBSTER Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote ...
DANIEL WEBSTER I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
DANIEL WEBSTER The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
DANIEL WEBSTER God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
DANIEL WEBSTER On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free in...
DANIEL WEBSTER Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
DANIEL WEBSTER Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage...
DANIEL WEBSTER Mind is the great lever of all things.
DANIEL WEBSTER I still live.
DANIEL WEBSTER The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER One country, one constitution, one destiny.
DANIEL WEBSTER The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem t...
DANIEL WEBSTER Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth.
DANIEL WEBSTER God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
DANIEL WEBSTER A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
DANIEL WEBSTER We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER [I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal j...
DANIEL WEBSTER May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own countr...
DANIEL WEBSTER The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to ...
DANIEL WEBSTER On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free in...
DANIEL WEBSTER The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
DANIEL WEBSTER Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimate...
DANIEL WEBSTER The law: It has honored us; may we honor it
DANIEL WEBSTER Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakes...
DANIEL WEBSTER Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
DANIEL WEBSTER Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves
DANIEL WEBSTER We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people
DANIEL WEBSTER It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence n...
DANIEL WEBSTER A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils
DANIEL WEBSTER The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is ...
DANIEL WEBSTER Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimate...
DANIEL WEBSTER A fair return for their labor so as to have good homes, good clothing, good food
DANIEL WEBSTER There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
DANIEL WEBSTER Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life
DANIEL WEBSTER No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation
DANIEL WEBSTER Those who do not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with the future do not perform t...
DANIEL WEBSTER Hold on to the Constitution and the republic for which it stands, What has happened once in 6,000 ye...
DANIEL WEBSTER They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doi...
DANIEL WEBSTER A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may
DANIEL WEBSTER Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty
DANIEL WEBSTER Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable
DANIEL WEBSTER When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American
DANIEL WEBSTER The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions
DANIEL WEBSTER I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
DANIEL WEBSTER One country, one constitution, one destiny
DANIEL WEBSTER The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people
DANIEL WEBSTER Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable
DANIEL WEBSTER Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakes...
DANIEL WEBSTER What can we do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound cheerless, uninviting, and ...
DANIEL WEBSTER An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
DANIEL WEBSTER Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one co...
DANIEL WEBSTER I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, w...
DANIEL WEBSTER Liberty consists in wholesome restraint
DANIEL WEBSTER Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe;...
DANIEL WEBSTER What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality
DANIEL WEBSTER How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
DANIEL WEBSTER Keep cool; anger is not an argument
DANIEL WEBSTER We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
DANIEL WEBSTER What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
DANIEL WEBSTER Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
DANIEL WEBSTER I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, wil...
DANIEL WEBSTER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
VICTOR WEBSTER I was raised doing martial arts.
VICTOR WEBSTER I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach v...
VICTOR WEBSTER Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that...
VICTOR WEBSTER If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
VICTOR WEBSTER I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s woul...
VICTOR WEBSTER Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
JOHN WEBSTER Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amount...
ANDY WEBSTER Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
JOHN WEBSTER In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubble...
JOHN WEBSTER I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
DAN WEBSTER I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I ...
DAN WEBSTER Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put f...
DAN WEBSTER I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's wha...
DAN WEBSTER Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
DAN WEBSTER As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Re...
DAN WEBSTER We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences...
DAN WEBSTER Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios an...
DAN WEBSTER We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills...
DAN WEBSTER I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried...
DAN WEBSTER We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation o...
DAN WEBSTER You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we ca...
DAN WEBSTER You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow th...
DAN WEBSTER My expectations are not in any future event. I would rather just be prepared for whatever might take...
DAN WEBSTER The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for a...
DAN WEBSTER I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantl...
DAN WEBSTER Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go...
DAN WEBSTER If you push down that pyramid of power and spread out the base, every member gets a chance to file t...
DAN WEBSTER I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid ...
DAN WEBSTER When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadlin...
DAN WEBSTER I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
DAN WEBSTER Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up powe...
DAN WEBSTER I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, ...
DAN WEBSTER Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
DAN WEBSTER Do I like foreign aid? Sometimes, but not every time. Don't like giving money to our enemies, bu...
DAN WEBSTER Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
DAN WEBSTER Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
JOHN WEBSTER There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
JOHN WEBSTER Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, wh...
GREG WEBSTER Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind, <...
JOHN WEBSTER Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superi...
NOAH WEBSTER Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away al...
JOHN WEBSTER Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something a...
NOAH WEBSTER When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst...
JOHN WEBSTER The weakest arm is strong enough, that strikes
With the sword of justice.
JOHN WEBSTER Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.
JOHN WEBSTER Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;
As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
JOHN WEBSTER Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
JOHN WEBSTER Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that em...
VICTOR WEBSTER I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
VICTOR WEBSTER The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not th...
NOAH WEBSTER It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine so...
NOAH WEBSTER In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all ch...
NOAH WEBSTER No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any govern...
NOAH WEBSTER They're causing problems with the sales of real estate and causing property value drops.
BEN WEBSTER As for listening to other recordings - that's just about all that I do. I listen to everyone. First ...
BEN WEBSTER There are four guys that I've always listened to and admired and have great respect for. I think the...
BEN WEBSTER I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can ...
BEN WEBSTER There has been a shift in attitudes.
BEN WEBSTER Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there...
BEN WEBSTER The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
NOAH WEBSTER When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...
NOAH WEBSTER I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend...
JOHN WEBSTER Call for the robin-red-breast, and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leav...
JOHN WEBSTER A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never ...
JOHN WEBSTER By embracing our brokenness, we don’t come to Christ's feet occasionally, but we stay at His feet ...
TIFFANY WEBSTER Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
JOHN WEBSTER Diligently check out stocks before investing in them.
BOB WEBSTER We're going for a pre-emptive strike here,
BOB WEBSTER If someone is telling you the investment opportunity is going to go away, let it go.
BOB WEBSTER We're not saying all of these credentials are bogus.
BOB WEBSTER One phone call can save a lot of money.
BOB WEBSTER Based on our past experience with 9/11 and Y2K, we know that these people (scam artists) are out the...
BOB WEBSTER We've not had any complaints from California yet, but we're trying to catch this thing early.
BOB WEBSTER