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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.

Wisdom begins at the end.

This fearful concatenation of circumstances.

F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

The Avon to the Severn runs, The Severn, to the sea, And Wickliff's dust shall spread abroad Wide as the waters be.

Independence now: and Independence forever.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sum in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.

If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!

Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. - Daniel Webster,

Thank God, I--I also--am an American!

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.