Nature is God's Old Testament.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

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.

All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

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

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.