Quote#Books & Reading
I have read their platform, and though I think there are some unsound…
Quote byDaniel Webster · 1782–1852
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at Marshfield, Massachusetts (1 September 1848); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), p. 433.
English (original)
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
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