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Charles Sprague (1791–1875) Boston businessman and poet
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Down all that glory in the heavens to glean our Saviour.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
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John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Remarks in Heber Springs, Arkansas, at the Dedication of Greers Ferry Dam (3 October 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9455<br>Variant: Rising tide lifts all boats.<br> Remarks in Pueblo, Colorado following Approval of the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project (336)" (17 August 1962) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx<!-- Public Papers of the President: John F. Kennedy, 1962 --> <br class="br">1963 <br class="br">Context: As this State's income rises, so does the income of Michigan. As the income of Michigan rises, so does the income of the United States. A rising tide lifts all the boats and as Arkansas becomes more prosperous so does the United States and as this section declines so does the United States. So I regard this as an investment by the people of the United States in the United States.