There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears.
|
Its a Story they tell in the border country, where Massachusetts joins Vermont and New Hampshire. Yes, Danl Websters deador, at least, they buried him. But every time theres a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, Danl WebsterDanl Webster! the groundll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while youll hear a deep voice saying, Neighbor, how stands the Union? Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or hes liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, thats what I was told when I was a youngster.
|
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin;...
|
Vain ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
|
Rhetoric is good for the politician, but even he comes to the point when he must take responsibility for his words.
|
DUCHESS: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jewellers' hands. FERDINAND: Whores, by that rule, are precious.
|
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.
|
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
|
Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality
|
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; As seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
|
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
|
With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.
|
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
|
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization
|
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political station. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of immorality , he abuses his civic responsibilty. He sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor, and he betrays the interest of his country.
Noah Webster
|
Cowardly dogs bark loudest.
|
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint
|
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together
|
I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
|
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue
|
Another source of power in government is a military force. But this, to be efficient, must be superior to any force that exists among the people, or which they can command; for otherwise this force would be annihilated, on the first exercise of acts of oppression. Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealous will instantly inspire the inclination to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive...
|
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
|
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange
|
If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.
|
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
|
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
|
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
|
Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.
|
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
|
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned
|