Charles Sumner Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

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

  Charles Sumner

  Fame, Mankind, Labor

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

• Whatever may be the temporary applause of men, or the expressions of public opinion, it may be asserted without fear of contradiction, that no true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Expression, Public Opinion

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.332

• The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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