Let a nations fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. – Edward Everett
And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began. – Edward Everett
With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. – Edward Everett
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett
