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JOHN WATSON AND WIFE

[St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina.]

Praises on Tombs are titles vainly spent.
A man's good name is his best Monument.

RICHARD HENRY WILDE

[Greene Street, Augusta, Georgia.]

[West Side]

RICHARD HENRY WILDE.
Born

Sept. 24 1789
Died

Sept. 10 1847

[South Side]

Poet.
Orator.

Jurist.
Historian.

Statesman.

[East Side]

"My life is like the summer rose,

That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close, Is scattered on the ground to die."

[North Side]

Erected by the

Hayne Literary Circle
of

Augusta, Georgia
1896

QUOTATIONS AND NOTABLE SAYINGS

It is hoped that the topical and alphabetical arrangement of these passages will not only facilitate reference but make this part of the volume a source of varied instruction and suggestion. For the casual reader, the student, the historian, the educator, the preacher, the public speaker or debater, the material here offered is intended to be of permanent service. Some of these sayings, though not hitherto recorded in books of quotations, have marked turning points in history. It should be needless to say that no sentiment has been excluded on the ground of its appearing elsewhere in 'The Library of Southern Literature.'

Actions. A slender acquaintance with the world must. convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it.-George WashINGTON, Social Maxims.

Allegiance. I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.-HENRY CLAY, In the United States Senate, 1848.

Alliances, Foreign.-'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address.

Ambition.-Sir, the sun never sets on ambition like this; they who have once felt its scorpion sting, are never satisfied with a limit less than the circle of our planet.-JOHN RANDOLPH, Vaulting Ambition.

America. There are four things, which, I humbly conceive, are essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States, as an independent power.

First. An indissoluble union of the States under one federal head.

and,

Secondly.—A sacred regard to public justice.
Thirdly. The adoption of a proper peace establishment;

Fourthly. The prevalence of that pacific and friendly disposition among the people of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies; to make those mutual concessions, which are requisite to the general prosperity; and, in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community.

These are the pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independency and national character must be supported. Liberty is the basis; and whoever would dare to sap the founda

tion, or overturn the structure, under whatever specious pretext he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest execration, and the severest punishment, which can be inflicted by his injured country. George WashingTON, Circular Letter, 1783. America.

While the manners, while the arts,

That mould a nation's soul,

Still cling around our hearts,

Between let ocean roll,

Our joint communion breaking with the Sun:

Yet still from either beach

The voice of blood shall reach,

More audible than speech,

"We are One."

-WASHINGTON ALLSTON, America to Great Britain.

America. Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.-STEPHEN DECATUR, Toast given at Norfolk, April, 1816.

America. In this republic of ours is lodged the hope of free government on earth. Here God has rested the ark of his covenant with the sons of men. Let us once estranged and thereby closer bound-let us soar above all provincial pride and find our deeper inspirations in gathering the fullest sheaves into the harvest and standing the staunchest and most devoted of its sons as it lights the path and makes clear the way through which all the people of the earth shall come in God's appointed time.-HENRY W. GRADY, The South and Her Problems, Address Delivered at the Dallas, Texas, State Fair, October 26, 1887.

Americans. Let us hope that future generations, when they remember the deeds of heroism and devotion done on both sides, will speak not of Northern prowess and Southern courage, but of the heroism, fortitude, and courage of Americans in a war of ideas; a war in which each section signalized its consecration to the principles, as each understood them, of American liberty and of the constitution received from their fathers.-L. Q. C. LAMAR, Eulogy of Sumner (1874).

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