"I should be glad if I could flatter……" — Edward Everett
"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 did in two minutes."
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Edward Everett
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24 Quotes by Edward Everett
Edward Everett has 24 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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. . .…
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And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.
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In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862,…
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In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original…
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There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as…
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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…
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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…
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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed…
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