"I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound places in it, I can stand upon it pretty well. But I see nothing in it both new and valuable. "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.""
— Daniel Webster

January 1, 1970

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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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Confer Henry Brougham's "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable." (The Edinburgh Review, The Work of Thomas Young, c. 1802)