Zitat des Tages von Daniel Webster:
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
There is always room at the top.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.
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.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.