Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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The people of the South are not going to wage an eternal war for the wretched pretexts by which this rebellion is sought to be justified.Edward Everett
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 individu.
Edward Everett
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
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That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.
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An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.
Edward Everett
In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.
Edward Everett
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