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Edward Everett Biography

Edward Everett (April 11, 1794 – January 15, 1865) was an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State. He also taught at Harvard University and served as its president.

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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.

Army, Education, Liberty, Schoolmaster, Sergeant

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.

Blessing, Integrity, Lead, May, Pure, Straight

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

Amends, Fervent, Glowing, Make, Suffering, Toil

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.

Easily, Land, Law, Men, Owner, Soil

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.

Change, Discovery, Life, Philosophy, Stage, Truth

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

Features, Institutions, Republican, Scripture, Teaching

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.

Art, Bold, Deep, Power, Spiritual, Spring

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.

Battle, Citizens, Expense, Law, Public

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest. . .

Servile, Soil, Toil, Wreck, Wrecks

Literature is the voice of the age and the state; the character, energy, and resources of the country are reflected and imaged forth in the conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

Character, Country, Inspires, Prophetic, Thinking

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.

Authors, Congress, Ferocious, Lasts, Real, Speech

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.

Dawn, Grateful, Gratitude, Memories, Nobly, Safety

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.

Freedom, War, Long, Abide, Principles, Conflict

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.

Bier, Mourning, Pomp, Sorrow, Tears, Waste

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

Everything, Life, Oneness, Responsibility

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

Heart, People, Unions, North, Union

Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

Free, Horse, Military, Order, People, Rights

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.

Blessed, California, Drop, Grain, Lying

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

God, Grace, Grace Of God, Should

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.

Atoms, Break Up, Elements, Empire, Repulsion, Roman

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