Political Quotes

On the record
The National Government must be on the side of Freedom.--Accomplishing these specific changes, a new tone will be given to the Republic.
Said by
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner advocates for the National Government to actively support freedom, suggesting that this will transform the Republic's character.

Share

More from Charles Sumner

Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.

gutenberg.org

By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…

gutenberg.org

They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.

gutenberg.org

They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation