38 Quotes by Charles Sumner

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

Anything for Human Rights is constitutional.

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind

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 grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.