Daniel Webster Quotes

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

I feel uneasy at the very idea of a Movement. I see every insight degenerating into a dogma, and fresh thoughts freezing into lifeless party line.

We [Republicans] don’t need any new ideas.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future.

Dissidents should be paid 13 months' salary for a year, otherwise our mindless unanimity will bring us to an even more hopeless state of stagnation. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

There is ample evidence that participation in an electoral process forces any party, regardless of ideology, to moderate its position if it wants to attract voters in large numbers.

The principle issue in this election is whether or not you are prepared to do anything new.

The Populist platform is almost too absurd to merit serious discussion.

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

The conventional wisdom of the United States is not always the right conventional wisdom.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.