Charles Sumner

“Be thou faithful unto death. The day is breaking. The long night of slavery is drawing to a close.”

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

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

“The slave of principle. I call no man master.”

“The happiness of the people is the sole end of government.”

“There is no other real object in all the universe than the vindication of the Divine right of every man to his own soul.”

“The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.”

“Where slavery is, there liberty cannot be; and where liberty is, there slavery cannot be.”

“I am in morals, not politics.”

“The phrase 'public office is a public trust' has of late become common property.”

“Equality of rights is the first of rights.”

“The Constitution does not protect slavery; it is a charter of liberty.”

“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 would be proud.”

“If you are not too large for the place you are too small for it.”