Charles Sumner: “Augustine called the splendid vices, neglecting the simple virtues,--too long cultivated the flaunting and noxious…”

“Augustine called the splendid vices, neglecting the simple virtues,--too long cultivated the flaunting and noxious weeds, careless of the golden corn,--too long been insensible to that commanding law and sacred example which rebuke all the pretensions of military glory.”