Charles Sumner

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

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

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

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?