“The Character of Washington,” speech on G. Washington centennial, Washington, D.C. (22 Feb 1832) - Webster, Daniel | WIST Quotations
Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commerce from the ocean, another generation may renew it; if it exhaust our treasury, future industry may replenish it;… It were but a trifle even if the walls of yonder Capitol were to crumble, if…
