“From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.”
Charles Sumner“No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.”
Charles Sumner“Mr. Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented [photophone transmitter], though really it was created through a collaborative effort with Mr. Charles Sumner Tainter. In all honesty,” she said, “a great inventor needs a healthy amount of conceit. Mr. Bell and, fellow inventor, Mr. Edison would declare they’d created the moon and the tides between them if they could get away with the claim.”
Kristen Callihan, Evernight