Edward Everett Quotes

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 . . . - Edward Everett

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately. - Edward Everett Hale

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. - Edward Everett Hale

To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand. - Edward Everett Hale

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 Hale

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

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. - Edward Everett

The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. - Edward Everett Hale

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

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter. - Edward Everett

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