Quote from Edward Everett 

"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."

Quote by:
Edward Everett
(1794-1865) American politician and educator from Massachusetts. US Representative, US Senator, 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, US Secretary of State, professor and president of Harvard
Source:
Orations and Speeches. Address, Aug. 25, 1835. Before the Literary Societies of Amherst College.
 
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