The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Success is like water, the more thirsty you are for it is the more you will drink it, and you'll need it forever to survive.

when you’re the first in your family to go to college, you never truly feel like they’ve let you go.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

Many priceless things can be bought.

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

Potential audiences are real people found in real places.