Quotes by Edward Everett

“If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education”

“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 the something that I can do.”

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

“There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.”

“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 . . .”

“Are you complete in yourself? [The root] answers, No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die. So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual.”

“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 . . .”

“I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

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.

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

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.

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.