Democracy Is Direct Self-government Over All The

I Do Not Pretend To Understand The Moral Universe; The Arc Is A Long One. . . . But From What I See I Am Sure It Bends Toward Justice.

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.

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.

What A Joy Is There In A Good Book, Writ By Some Great Master Of Thought, Who Breaks Into Beauty As In Summer The Meadow Into Grass And Dandelions And Violets, With Geraniums And Manifold Sweetness.

Magnificent Promises Are Always To Be Suspected.