Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that o…

- Edward Everett

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 conceptio…

- Edward Everett

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

- Edward Everett

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 …

- Edward Everett

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

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 p…

- Edward Everett

There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.

- Edward Everett

We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investig…

- Edward Everett

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 …

- Edward Everett