May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!

Webster’s line is a soaring patriotic benediction: a wish that, as the sun circles the globe, it will find no nation surpassing the speaker’s own in liberty, happiness, or beauty. The phrasing fuses Enlightenment political ideals (“more free”) with civic well-being (“more happy”) and a romantic sense of landscape and national character (“more lovely”). As with much of Webster’s oratory, the sentence works as public rhetoric rather than private reflection—designed to bind listeners into a shared national identity and to present the United States as a moral and political exemplar. Its superlatives also imply a duty to preserve those qualities against internal division or decline.