Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Edward Everett (American Politician)

Edward Everett (1794–1865) was an American politician, scholar, and orator. He is mainly remembered for delivering the speech preceding President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address (19-Nov-1863) during the American Civil War.

Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Everett studied at Harvard and, in 1815, was chosen professor of Greek there. In 1820, he became editor of the North American Review, and in 1824 a member of the U.S. Congress. From 1835–38, he was four times governor of Massachusetts and 1841–45 minister at the Court of St James’s. Everett was president of Harvard (1846–49) and, in 1852, succeeded Daniel Webster as secretary of state. He returned to the U.S. Senate in 1853.

Everett wrote Defence of Christianity (1814,) poems, and Orations and Speeches (1836–59.) His brother was Alexander Hill Everett, a politician and Boston man of letters.

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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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