The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Sidney would remark, ‘I know just what Beatrice is saying at this moment.
She is saying, “as Sidney always says, marriage is the waste-paper basket of the emotions.”’
In Bertrand Russell ‘Autobiography’ (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4
11.36 Daniel Webster 1782-1852
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the
people.
Second speech in the Senate on Foot’s Resolution, 26 January 1830.
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!
Second speech in the Senate on Foot’s Resolution, 26 January 1830
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised
their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in
the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the
whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the
sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken
strain of the martial airs of England.
Speech in the Senate on the President’s Protest, 7 May 1834
Thank God, I—I also—am an American!
Speech on the Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, 17 June 1843
The Law: It has honoured us, may we honour it.
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Speech in the Senate on ‘The Compromise Bill’, 17 July 1850
Fearful concatenation of circumstances.
Argument on the Murder of Captain Joseph White
There is always room at the top.
When advised not to become a lawyer as the profession was overcrowded
11.37 John Webster c.1580-c.1625
Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things,
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
‘The Devil’s Law-Case’ (1623) act 5, sc. 4
Ferdinand: And women like that part which, like the lamprey,
Hath never a bone in’t.
Duchess: Fie, sir!
Ferdinand: Nay,
I mean the tongue; variety of courtship:
What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale