It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny.

Charles Sumner

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Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Charles Sumner

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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

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By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Charles Sumner

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The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

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The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.

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If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

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Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Charles Sumner

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The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

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War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Charles Sumner

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Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

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Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

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No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

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Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.

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The age of Chivalry is gone. An age of Humanity has come.

Charles Sumner

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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Charles Sumner

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There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

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A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Charles Sumner

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The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

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Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Sumner

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Without security, civilization is cramped and dwarfed. Without security, there can be no freedom. Nor shall I say too much, when I declare that security, guarded of course by its offspring, freedom, is the true end and aim of government.

Charles Sumner

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