Daniel Webster

"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 mo...