Charles Sumner Quotes

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• The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
• The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
• War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is…
• War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
• Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
• I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
• The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.
• There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by…
• Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.
• It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom…
• The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.
• Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security,…
• Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings…
• No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

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