Daniel Webster Quote by Herman Melville Download Open image ““Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U.S. Senate”” — Herman Melville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Daniel Webster
“The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Each eager contestant strove to embarrass the other. Webster opposed a special session of Congress as unnecessary, and Clay sought to influence the cabinet… — Robert J. Rayback Copy Share Image
“Mike Mansfield had a saying: “It only takes one senator to make a scene. But it takes more than one to make a difference.”… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they… — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
“[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I speak as a Republican I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American. I don’t… — of Maine Margaret Chase Smith speaking out against Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Come Senators, Congressmen, Please heed the call, Don’t stand in the doorways, Don’t block up the halls…For the times they are a changin’.” — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
“you do not get what is the foundation of the very liberty that we breathe, that the people are entitled to have the facts,… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Then, too, the senate has a rule that no point is discussed on the same day it is brought up, but rather it is… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“(On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Yet this is life. For hardly have we mortals by long toilings extracted from this world's vast bulk its small but valuable sperm; and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and… — Gregory A. Freeman Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
“One reason to keep going is that the country was given to us as a sacred charge. It is, as Stephen Vincent Benet says… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
“May not such events raise the suggestion that they are not undesigned? Daniel Webster” — Squire Rushnell Copy Share Image
“What Homer could never have foreseen is the double idiocy into which we now educate our children. We have what look like our equivalent… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
