John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Daniel Webster. (1782–1852) (continued) |
| 5496 |
| 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 Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. P. 64. |
| 5497 |
| Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. |
| Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. P. 71. |
| 5498 |
| Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. |
| Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. P. 74. |
| 5499 |
| Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. |
| Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. P. 78. |
| 5500 |
| Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty. |
| Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93. |
| 5501 |
| 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. |
| Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 102. |
| 5502 |
| 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. |
| Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 105. |
| 5503 |
| Thank God! I—I also—am an American! |
| Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 107. |
| 5504 |
| Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. 1 |
| Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. P. 133. |
| Note 1. Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: “I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.”—John Adams: Works, vol. iv. p. 8. Live or die, sink or swim.—George Peele: Edward I. (1584?). [back] |