Edward Everett Quotes

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• There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.
• I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and…
• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
• The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,…
• And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
• I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you…
• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the…
• In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms,…
• There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors…
• The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he…
• Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
• General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he…
• It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and…
• The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.
• Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
• God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
• Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long…
• And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st…
• Not a moment had been lost by General Hooker in the pursuit of Lee.
• That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part…

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