"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."
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Members of the United States SenateAgronomistsUnited States presidential candidates, 1852United States presidential candidates, 1848United States presidential candidates, 1836
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Daniel Webster
1782 – 1852
US-amerikanischer Staatsmann und Jurist
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