Author: Daniel Webster

Cited by

• Jean Hanff Korelitz (1)
  • IN: The Devil and Webster (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This, Sir is my case! It is the case not merely of that humble institution, it is the case of every college in our Land... of all those great charities founded by the piety of our ancestors to alleviate human misery, and scatter blessings along the pathway of life... Sir, you may destroy this little institution; it is weak, it is in your hands! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our country. You may put it out! But if you do so, you must carry through your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which for more than a century have thrown their radiance over our land! It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!
    FROM: NULL, (1818), NULL, US
• Matthew Reilly (1)
  • IN: Scarecrow (2003) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
    FROM: Argument on the murder of Captain White, (1830), Article, US
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Nantucket itself,” said Mr. Webster, “is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest. There is a population of eight or nine thousand persons living here in the sea, adding largely every year to the National wealth by the boldest and most persevering industry.”
    FROM: Report of Daniel Webster's Speech in the U. S. Senate, on the application for the Erection of a Breakwater at Nantucket. 1828., (1828), Speech, US