List of Edward Everett Quotes

Ever The Characteristic Manners Of Cowardice.

The Man Who Stands Upon His Own Soil, Who Feels, By The Laws Of The Land In Which He Lives,-by The Laws Of Civilized Nations,-he Is The Rightful And Exclusive Owner Of The Land Which He Tills, Is, By The Constitution Of Our Nature, Under A Wholesome Influence, Not Easily Imbibed From Any Other Source.

What Subsists To-day By Violence Continues To-morrow By Acquiescence And Is Perpetuated By Tradition; Till At Last The Hoary Abuse Shakes The Gray Hairs Of Antiquity At Us, And Gives It-self Out As The Wisdom Of Ages.

The Highest Historical Probability Can Be Adduced In Support Of The Proposition That, If It Were Possible To Annihilate The Bible, And With It All Its Influences, We Should Destroy With It The Whole Spiritual System Of The Moral World.

We Have Now In Our Possession Three Instruments Of Civilization, Unknown To Antiquity. These Are The Art Of Printing; Free Representative Government; And, Lastly, A Pure And Spiritual Religion, The Deep Fountain Of Generous Enthusiasm, The Mighty Spring Of Bold And Lofty Designs, The Great Sanctuary Of Moral Power.

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 For The Action When He Fell, Mortally Wounded, At The Head Of His Advance.

Drop A Grain Of California Gold Into The Ground, And There It Will Lie Unchanged Until The End Of Time; . . . Drop A Grain Of Our Blessed Gold [wheat] Into The Ground And Lo! A Mystery.

A Great Character, Founded On The Living Rock Of Principle Is, In Fact, Not A Solitary Phenomenon, To Be At Once Perceived, Limited, And Described. It Is A Dispensation Of Providence, Designed To Have Not Merely An Immediate, But A Continuous, Progressive, And Never-ending Agency. It Survives The Man Who Possessed It; Survives His Age,--and Perhaps, His Country, His Language.

God Bless The Union; - It Is Dearer To Us For The Blood Of Brave Men Which Has Been Shed In Its Defence.

When Every Brake Hath Found Its Note, And Sunshine Smiles In Every Flower.

In Conformity With These Designs On The City Of Washington, And Notwithstanding The Disastrous Results Of The Invasion Of 1862, It Was Determined By The Rebel Government Last Summer To Resume The Offensive In That Direction.