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'An example to the world'

Quincy Market— Photo by Back Boucher — *Quincy Market*
*— Photo by Back Boucher*

"Citizens of Boston! ..... Consider your blessings; consider your duties. ..... Let New England continue to be an example to the world of the blessings of free government, and of the means and capacity of man to maintain it. ..... In all times to come as in all times past, may Boston be among the foremost and the boldest to exemplify and uphold whatever constitutes the prosperity, the happiness, and the glory of New England.''

— Speech in 1830 by Josiah Quincy III (1772- 1864), member of the U.S. House (1805–1813), mayor of Boston (1823–1828), and president of Harvard University (1829–1845). The historic Quincy Market in downtown Boston is named in his honor.