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

- Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the …

- Charles Sumner

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

- Charles Sumner

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

- Charles Sumner

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

- Charles Sumner

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 wi…

- Charles Sumner

The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

- Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

- Charles Sumner

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

- Charles Sumner