No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
"Charles Sumner" was an American politician and senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the United States Senate during the American Civil War working to destroy the Confederate States of America/Confederacy, free all the slaves and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction era of the United States/Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the Freedmen.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous politicians! More Charles Sumner on Wikipedia.I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
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 and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.
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.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
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