Quote by Daniel Webster
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any o

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a mans house is a monopoly. – Daniel Webster

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Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality. – Daniel Webster

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The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

I dont mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I dont even mind using someones reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. – Joseph Newcomer

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