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• Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament.
  Life and power are scattered with all its beams. -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p....
• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825, p....
• We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.
  We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country....
• Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation.
  Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day....
• America has furnished to the world the character of Washington.
  And if our American institutions had done nothing else, that alone would have entitled them to the respect of mankind....
• If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
  -- Daniel Webste...
• Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p. 93...
• Thank God! I--I also--am an American! -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843, p.
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• Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the righ
  but our country right or wrong! -- Stephen Decatu...