John Webster Quotes

A sense of duty pursues us ever.

There is always room at the top.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Independence now and independence forever.

The law: It has honored us; may we honor it.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

Labor is the great producer of wealth; it moves all other causes.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, — and often nothing so strange.

Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life — it points to another world.

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all beams.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

The criminal law is not founded on the principle of vengeance; it uses evil only as the means of preventing greater evil.