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Top 25 Charles Sumner Quotes (2025 Update)

Charles Sumner Quote: “If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.”

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

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Charles Sumner Quote: “The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.”

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

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.”

3. “The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.”

4. “Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “Nothing from man’s hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.”

6. “Nothing from man’s hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “I am without religious feeling.”

7. “I am without religious feeling.”

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Charles Sumner Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”

9. “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

Charles Sumner Quote: “The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.”

10. “The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “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 not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.”

11. “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 not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.”

12. “The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Charles Sumner Quote: “The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.”

14. “The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.”

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Charles Sumner Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Charles Sumner Quote: “Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.”

16. “Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.”

17. “Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.”

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Charles Sumner Quote: “The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.”

18. “The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.”

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

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”

20. “Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.”

21. “The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.”

22. “A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”

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

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.”

25. “I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.”

— Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner Quote: “Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?”

26. “Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?”

— Charles Sumner

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