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Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

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The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)

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