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Charles Sumner Biography

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. He worked hard to destroy the Confederacy, free all the slaves, and keep on good terms with Europe. During Reconstruction, he fought to minimize the power of the ex-Confederates and guarantee equal rights to the freedmen. He fell into a dispute with fellow Republican President Ulysses Grant on the question of taking control of Santo Domingo. Grant's allies stripped Sumner of his power in the Senate in 1871, and he joined the Liberal Republican movement in an effort to defeat Grant's reelection in 1872.

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

Evil, Influence, Making, Precise, Spheres, War

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Circumstance, Elevates, Generals, Greatness, Men, War

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.

Crush, Happiness, Heel, Men, Peace, War

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

Age, Chivalry, Diversity, Humanity, Justice

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.

Civilization, Declare, Dwarfed, Freedom, Government, Offspring

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

Excellence, Flower, Moral, Progress

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

Dishonorable, Peace, Philosophy, Political, War

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

Fame, Founded, Happiness, Labor, Mankind, Permanent

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.

Asserted, Except, Expression, Expressions, Men, Public Opinion

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

Man, Men, Old, Sensual, Youth

I am without religious feeling.

Atheism, Feeling, Feelings, Religious

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Afford, Mean, Meanness, Nation, Nations, Thing

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

Civil War, Enlightened, Humanity, Intellect, Man, Men

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.

Character, Men, Law, Slavery, Man

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.

Attained, Companions, Ignorance, Progress, Vices, Virtue

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

Complimented, Done, Evil, Man, Marble, Men

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.

Enemy, Poison, Realized, Sorts, Two

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.

Children, Consecrated, Kings, Peace, Queens, Whole

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.

Briareus, Civilization, Eye, Eyes, Strong, Watchful

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

Abroad, Heart, Leap, My Heart, Thought

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