Quotes by Charles Sumner

• The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.
• The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
• No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
• From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
• I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.