Charles Sumner

You must take care of the civil rights bill - my bill, the civil rights bill - don't let it fail.

The time has passed for argument. Nothing more need be said. For a long time it has been clear that colored persons must be senators.

Worse than any heathen or pagan abroad are those in our midst who are false to our institutions.

Slavery shall not exist anywhere within the United States or the jurisdiction thereof; and the Congress shall have power to make all laws necessary and proper to carry this prohibition into effect.

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.

The age of Chivalry has gone. An age of Humanity has come. The Horse, whose importance more than human, have the name to that early period of gallantry and war, now yields his foremost place to Man. In serving him, in promoting his …

Ideas are more important than battles.

Equality of rights is the first of rights.