Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.
Theodore ParkerFor a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
Theodore ParkerWhat sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
Theodore ParkerScience, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
Theodore ParkerFirst 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.
Theodore Parker