Joseph Hopkinson quotes
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“Enjoy the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!”
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“Hail, Columbia! happy land! Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.”
-- Joseph HopkinsonSource : "Hail, Columbia" l. 1 (1798)
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“Sound, sound the trump of Fame! Let Washington's great name Ring through the world with loud applause; Let every clime to Freedom dear Listen with a joyful ear. With equal skill, with god-like power, He governs in the fearful hour Of horrid war, or guides with ease, The happier times of honest peace.”
-- Joseph Hopkinson
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“My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.”
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Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155
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“We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!”
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