"This anniversary animates and gladdens, and unites all American hearts. On other days of the year we may be party men, indulging in controversies more or less important to the public good; we may have likes and dislikes, and we may maintain our political differences often with warm, and sometimes with angry feelings. But to-day we are Americans all in all, nothing but Americans." —Webster, Daniel. "The Fourth of July." Bancroft's Fifth Reader, A.L. Bancroft & Company, San Francisco: 1883. p. 239.
