An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character.—History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of its words and deeds.
—Edward Everett
Topics: Fame
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.
—Edward Everett
Topics: Home
What subsists today by violence, continues tomorrow by acquiescence, and is perpetuated by tradition, till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives itself out as the wisdom of ages.
—Edward Everett
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 as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.
—Edward Everett
Topics: Freedom
All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.
—Edward Everett
Topics: Bible
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
—Edward Everett
Topics: Education, Army
An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.
—Edward Everett
Topics: Education, Class
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