Political Quotes

Edward Everett preached a sermon when he was twenty-four years old before a large audience in the Representatives Chamber at Washington which was heard with breathless silence.

And now, after the war, another enemy, unarmed, but bringing even greater danger, menaces the Republic.

But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.