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Top 25 Edward Everett Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Everett Quote: “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

1. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.”

2. “I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

3. “Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

4. “I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.”

5. “There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.”

6. “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “God bless the Union; – it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.”

7. “God bless the Union; – it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.”

9. “And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.”

10. “When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “Let a nation’s fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.”

11. “Let a nation’s fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.”

12. “The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.”

14. “I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, – into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.”

15. “In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, – into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.”

16. “There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.”

17. “When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.”

18. “Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!”

19. “This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.”

20. “We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.”

23. “It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Edward Everett Quote: “All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.”

26. “All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.”

— Edward Everett

Edward Everett Quote: “Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.”

27. “Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.”

— Edward Everett

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