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daniel_webster_sepia"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.  …Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration, forever." (Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument,  June 17, 1825)

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Daniel Webster served as a Member of Congress and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, as well as United States Secretary of State.

 

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Timeless Principles

John Witherspoon

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"On the part of America, there was not the most distant thought of subverting the government or of hurting the interest of the people of Great Britain; but of defending their own privileges from unjust encroachment; there was not the least desire of withdrawing their allegiance from the common sovereign till it became absolutely necessary - and indeed, it was his [King George III] own choice." (The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, May 17,1776) --- John Witherspoon was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Pres...

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