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"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions." — Agatha Christie

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Charles Sumner Quotes

Type: Statesman | Date of Birth: 1811-01-06 | Year of Death: 1874 | Nationality: American

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

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

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

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

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