D. Webster
Cited as D. Webster. — 27 quotations
Compress
Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life.
Consideration
The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration.
Corpse
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Credit
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Description
Milton has descriptions of morning.
despond
We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong.
Detection
Such secrets of guilt are never from detection.
Disclosure
He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure.
Disguise
That eye which glances through all disguises.
Dissever
States disserved, discordant, belligerent.
Distinction
Your country's own means of distinction and defense.
distrust
Alienation and distrust . . . are the growth of false principles.
Disunion
I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion.
Down
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
Drumbeat
Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Duration
Soon shall have passed our own human duration.
Heaven
When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven.
Inseparable
Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Object
Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Public
He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Ruba-dub
The rubadub of the abolition presses.
Self-government
It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, -- the system that lets in all to participate in the councels that are to assign the good or evil to all, -- that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be.
Servant
Men in office have begun to think themselves mere agents and servants of the appointing power, and not agents of the government or the country.
Silence
The administration itself keeps a profound silence.
Star
With the old flag, the true American flag, the Eagle, and the Stars and Stripes, waving over the chamber in which we sit.
Usurpation
Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States.
Venerable
Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.