Edward Everett Hale

No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or who abuses you, never look at another flag, never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember, boy, that behind all these men you have to do with, behind officers, and government, and people even, there is the Country Herself, your Country, and that you belong to Her as you belong to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, as you would stand by your mother, if those devils there had got hold of her to-day.

— Edward Everett Hale

He loved his country as no other man has loved her; but no man deserved less at her hands.

— Edward Everett Hale

Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if we live with all our might with the thirty or forty people next to us, telegraphing kindly to all other people, to be sure? Can it be possible that our passion for large cities, and large parties, and large theatres, and large churches, develops no faith nor hope nor love which would not find aliment and exercise in a little "world of our own"?

— Edward Everett Hale

I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will

— Edward Everett Hale

Together — one of the most inspiring words in the English language. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

— Edward Everett Hale

Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!

— Edward Everett Hale

Why were all these salutes fired, the world over? Why was every capital illuminated? Why was there a holiday given to every school ? Halfholidays had been the universal custom for years before. It was simply, you see, that a tenth part of the people in the world had shown in some way worth belief that they meant — To lend a hand.

— Edward Everett Hale

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

— Edward Everett Hale

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

— Edward Everett Hale