"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than……" — Edward Everett

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

— Edward Everett

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24 Quotes by Edward Everett

Edward Everett has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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. . .…
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 conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862,…
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original…
There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as…
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by…
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…

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More Antiwar Quotes

This quote is filed under Antiwar Quotes, one of 356 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction. — Bernard Baruch
If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — Simone de Beauvoir
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own… — Joseph Addison
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. — Tony Benn
It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler

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