Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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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. Vol. i. p. 64.

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. Vol. i. p. 71.

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. Vol. i. p. 74.

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. Vol. i. p. 78.

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.