Charles Sumner: “That he is not a politician, in the modern sense of the word, I admit; and if indirection, trickery, and the habit of…”

“That he is not a politician, in the modern sense of the word, I admit; and if indirection, trickery, and the habit of looking upon men, parties, and principles as mere stock in trade and tools of convenience are the qualifications of statecraft, then he is not a statesman.”