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Edward Everett has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of…
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I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations…
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And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
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I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near the central idea of the occasion, in two…
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In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was…
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In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, -…
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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show…
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The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws…
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Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.
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General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the…
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
— Baruch Spinoza
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To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up…
— James Hansen
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Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.
— Donald J. Boudreaux
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The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw…
— H. L. Mencken
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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the…
— Edward Everett
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Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at…
— James Madison
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
— Adam Smith
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