128 Quotes by Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.