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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 on men's immortal minds, if we impress on them with high principles, the just fear of God and love for their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

— Daniel Webster

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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever.

Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826)

There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange.

Argument on the murder of Captain Joseph White (1830)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

On the Agriculture of England (1840)

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