‘The world knows it by heart’

"I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever."

— Daniel Webster (1782-1952), U.S. senator and congressman from Massachusetts, secretary of state and famed orator and lawyer.