50 Quotes by Edward Everett

Although General Lee broke up from Fredericksburg on the 3d of June, it was not till the 24th that the main body of his army entered Maryland.

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, 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 . . .

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

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

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.