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“I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.”
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- Speech
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- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 4653733af2b926f1bc0899e060f1130b1a9656e2e40fb29512a4600294b1ea6d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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