On the record
I call it far-reaching: it will reach just as far as the endeavor to counteract it; it is coextensive with the Constitution itself.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner describes the expansive nature of constitutional power as being equal to the efforts to resist it.
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.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Other voices in this conversation
