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Quotation from Second Reply to Hayne by Daniel Webster
“That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity.”
Second Reply to Hayne, Peroration (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879))
Webster recalls the hard years under the Confederation that led to the Constitution.
Citation: "That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity." — Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, Peroration (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879)). (id webster-second-reply-to-hayne-q6)
Virtues: Fortitude
Portrait: Webster's Reply to Hayne, by Healy (cropped), George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain.
