On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. – Daniel Webster
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored. – Daniel Webster
May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! – Daniel Webster
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster
Topographically the country is magnificent — and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak. – Henry Miller