“I like your nickname, ‘The Granite State.’ It shows the strength of character, firmness of principle and restraint that have characterized New Hampshire.’’
President Gerald R. Ford, in a speech in Concord, New Hampshire’s capital, on April 17, 1975
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“Just specimens is all New Hampshire has,
One each of everything as in a show-case
Which naturally she doesn't care to sell.’’
— From the 1923 poem “New Hampshire,’’ by Robert Frost