Top 100 Webster Quotes
#1. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
Noah Webster
#2. Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage
(From LONE WOLF, p.50)
Len Webster
#3. I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.
Barbara Amiel
#6. A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.
Noah Webster
#7. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster
#8. You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
Dan Webster
#10. It roars and roars and when we're both long gone from this world, it will ripple with whispers until the end of time.
K. Webster
#11. With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream.
Ralph Webster
#12. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
Daniel Webster
#13. DYNAM comes from the Greek dynamis, meaning "power." A dyne is a unit used in measuring force; an instrument that measures force is called a dynamometer. And when Alfred Nobel invented a powerful explosive in 1867, he named it dynamite.
Merriam-Webster
#14. England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life
Nesta Helen Webster
#16. I don't know why I am in such a reminiscent mood except that spring and the reappearance of toads always awakens the old acquisitive instinct. The only thing that keeps me from starting a collection is the fact that no rule exists against it.
Jean Webster
#17. Webster, as if he's done it every day of his life, as if he did it just the day before, trails his fingers from the small of Sheila's back to the nape of her neck.
Sheila turns her head, "Go slowly and be careful," she says.
Anita Shreve
#18. Ben is the kind of guy that reaches into your heart and possesses it.
K. Webster
#19. In the meantime, I had to get dressed and go to work, because going to work in my pajamas was apparently the definition of unprofessional. Cookie's words. I looked it up though. She was wrong. Webster's mentioned nothing about pajamas.
Darynda Jones
#20. 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.
Daniel Webster
#21. I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
Dan Webster
#22. We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
Dan Webster
#23. Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful ... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state.
Nesta Helen Webster
#24. so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying. I hope that they will always be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.
Jean Webster
#26. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from ... the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
Daniel Webster
#27. The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.
Noah Webster
#28. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#29. Now what is a wedding? Well, Webster's dictionary describes a wedding as the process of removing weeds from one's garden.
Homer
#30. Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
#31. I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.
Dan Webster
#32. Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river,
For that some melancholic distracted man
Hath drowned himself in't.
John Webster
#34. If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.
Mike Webster
#35. It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#36. I met a boy. And when he smiled, my life began.
K. Webster
#37. Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
You never answered my question and it was very important.
ARE YOU BALD?
Jean Webster
#38. Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
Noah Webster
#39. If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
Dan Webster
#40. I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the Wren with a dash of Martini-Drink deep.
Aporva Kala
#41. I found a mistake in a rule. They addressed the wrong rule number ... I pointed it out, did an amendment, and everybody was happy after that.
Dan Webster
#42. Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
David Kenyon Webster
#43. The man who has half a million of dollars in property ... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.
Noah Webster
#44. I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
Dan Webster
#46. The chakras or force-centers are points of connection at which energy flows from one body of a man to another ... all these wheels are perpetually rotating, and into the hub or open mouth of each a force from a higher world is always flowing.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#47. The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
John Quincy Adams
#48. A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Daniel Webster
#49. Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.
Daniel Webster
#50. 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 jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive.
Noah Webster
#51. In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.
Barry Webster
#52. Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#53. Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong.
Randy Russell
#54. The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.
Noah Webster
#55. If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.
Daniel Webster
#56. I am not the wicked stepmother in this fairy's tale.
Barry Webster
#57. Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm.
John Webster
#58. It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
Daniel Webster
#59. When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
Dan Webster
#60. In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster
#61. When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell ... say hello for me ...
James O'Barr
#62. Good content is the stuff of love affairs.
Tom Webster
#63. Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
Dan Webster
#64. The feeling often comes over me that I am not at all remarkable; it is fun to plan a career, but in all probability I shan't turn out a bit different from any other ordinary person.
Jean Webster
#65. There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel that joy.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#66. Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#67. I will fight for Braxton Kennedy. Even if it means fighting against him to have him. I'll make him mine.
K. Webster
#68. The people's government, made for the people, made by the people and answerable to the people.
January 1830
Daniel Webster
#69. Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.
Robertson Davies
#70. You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.
Jean Webster
#71. If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.
Tom Webster
#72. The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice.
John Webster
#73. Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.
John Webster
#74. I like 'em dirty. And you're as dirty as they come. Soon, you'll be just as dirty on the inside,
K. Webster
#75. So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
James O'Barr
#76. Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Judy Blume
#78. The way I see it, religion, has done our family more harm than good. For me, faith has never been a source of comfort... For herself, Mela always missed having that sense of identity. She had a longing to belong... Long ago, we found that compromise.
Ralph Webster
#79. It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Noah Webster
#80. This man of his, yes, this man. Now Sam accepts his own desire. "I'm a gayrod," he shouts marching through crowded plazas. "I'm in love with a man, and I want men. That's what I want. I want man, man, man!
Barry Webster
#82. Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
Victor Webster
#83. The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
John Webster
#84. Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.
Noah Webster
#85. It's a penis not an introduction to the president.
K. Webster
#86. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me. I was queer and different and everybody knew it.
Jean Webster
#87. You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.
Mike Webster
#88. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster
#90. Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.
Jean Webster
#93. Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune.
A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion.
Noah Webster
#94. If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Daniel Webster
#95. I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.
Daniel Webster
#96. Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. 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 master, but they mean to be master.
Daniel Webster
#97. Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks more it would be hers no longer. This happy, irresponsible community life, which had come to be the only natural way of living, was suddenly at an end.
Jean Webster
#98. Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.
Lee Child
#99. Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes me latch on to people. First, it was my friend Tina, then Liam, and now you. I'm sorry, but I know it will happen. It already is happening. Now that we've had sex, I don't want you out of my sight.
K. Webster
#100. Right! There are plots.
Your beauty! Oh, ten thousand curses on 't!
How long have I beheld the devil in crystal!
Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice,
With music, and with fatal yokes of flowers,
To my eternal ruin. Woman to man
Is either a god, or a wolf.
John Webster
