All The Distinctive Features And Superiority Of

This Glorious Union Shall Not Perish! Precious Legacy Of Our Fathers, It Shall Go Down Honored And Cherished To Our Children. Generations Unborn Shall Enjoy Its Privileges As We Have Done; And If We Leave Them Poor In All Besides, We Will Transmit To Them The Boundless Wealth Of Its Blessings!

I Should Be Glad If I Could Flatter Myself That I Came As Near The Central Idea Of The Occasion, In Two Hours, As You Did In Two Minutes.

Beneath A Free Government There Is Nothing But The Intelligence Of The People To Keep The People's Peace. Order Must Be Preserved, Not By A Military Police Or Regiments Of Horse-guards, But By The Spontaneous Concert Of A Well-informed Population, Resolved That The Rights Which Have Been Rescued From Despotism Shall Not Be Subverted By Anarchy.

Literature Is The Voice Of The Age And The State; The Character, Energy, And Resources Of The Country Are Reflected And Imaged Forth In The Conceptions Of Its Great Minds; They Are Organs Of The Time; They Speak Not Their Own Language, They Scarce Think Their Own Thoughts; But Under An Impulse Like The Prophetic Enthusiasm Of Old, They Must Feel And Utter The Sentiments Which Society Inspires.

When Every Brake Hath Found Its Note, And Sunshine Smiles In Every Flower.