38 Quotes by Charles Sumner

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

I am without religious feeling.

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, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

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 our enemies.

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