Edward Everett Quotes About Age

• Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

  Edward Everett

  Freedom, War, Long

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

• 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 conceptions of its great minds; they are organs of the time; they speak not their own language, they scarce think their own thoughts; but under an impulse like the prophetic enthusiasm of old, they must feel and utter the sentiments which society inspires.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Character, Thinking

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.127

• Lo que hoy subsiste por la violencia, mañana continúa por la aquiescencia y se perpetúa por la tradición, hasta que al final el viejo abuso nos sacude las canas de la antigüedad y se presenta como la sabiduría de los siglos.

  Edward Everett

  Self, Hair, Giving

  Edward Everett (1831). “The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review”, p.15

• A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

  Edward Everett

  País, Carácter, Hombres

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

• Una inmortalidad terrenal pertenece a un carácter grande y bueno. La historia lo embalsama; vive en su influencia moral, en su autoridad, en su ejemplo, en el recuerdo de las palabras y hechos en que se manifestó; y como cada época aumenta las ilustraciones de su eficacia, puede suceder que sea el mejor comprendido por una posteridad remota.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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