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Quotes from Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument — Daniel Webster

1782–1852

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Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

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.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. 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.

Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Webster (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.