On the record
When I hear of wrong, I insist at all hazards that it shall be made right, knowing that in this way I best serve my country and every just cause.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner believes that addressing wrongs is the best way to serve the country and justice.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Other voices in this conversation
