Showing 1–36 of 36 entries
"Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers."
Lady Holland's Memoir. Vol. i. p. 267.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens."
Speech at Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1820. Vol. i. p. 44.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day."
Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 64.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered."
Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 71.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams."
Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 74.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country."
Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 78.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty."
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God."
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 102.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"America has furnished to the world the character of Washington. And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind."
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 105.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thank God! I--I also--am an American!"
Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 107.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote."
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 133.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,--Independence now and Independence forever."
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Vol. i. p. 136.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored."
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Vol. i. p. 146.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Washington is in the clear upper sky."
Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. Vol. i. p. 148.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet."
Speech on Hamilton, March 10, 1831. P. 200.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
Speech, March 15, 1837. P. 349.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization."
Remarks on Agriculture, Jan. 13, 1840. P. 457.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth."
On Mr. Justice Story, 1845. P. 300.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint."
Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. Vol. ii. p. 393.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The law: It has honored us; may we honor it."
Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. Vol. ii. p. 394.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.""
Speech at Marshfield, Sept. 1, 1848. P. 433.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor."
Speech, April, 1824. Vol. iii. p. 141.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing."
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. P. 303.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"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."
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. P. 316.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever."
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. P. 317.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. P. 321.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood."
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. Vol. iii. p. 342.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Second Speech on Foot's Resolution, Jan. 26, 1830. Vol. iii. p. 342.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
Speech, June 3, 1834. Vol. iv. p. 47.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable."
Speech, July 25 and 27, 1846. Vol. v. p. 187.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."
Speech, July 17, 1850. P. 437.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."
Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830. Vol. vi. p. 54.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange."
Argument on the Murder of Captain White. Vol. vi. p. 68.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Fearful concatenation of circumstances."
Argument on the Murder of Captain White. Vol. vi. p. 88.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us."
Argument on the Murder of Captain White. Vol. vi. p. 105.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty."
Letter, April, 1851.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain