Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – 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
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
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. – Charles Caleb Colton