The Dignitaries

"Empires may rise and fall; revolutions may convulse the world; governments may be dissolved; generations may come and generations may go; but this Library Building shall stand so long as the hills which surround it shall remain."

"I am glad to come back to the early home of my parents. The cycle of a century has nearly been completed since they here, upon this beautiful spot and in almost unbroken forest, reared their home. "

"I am not a son of Livermore, but today wish I was, for who wouldn’t be joined to the glorious company of saints you have in your exceedingly-interesting address summarized here today; not, to be sure, as a dead saint, but as a living sinner."