Humanity Is The Son Of God.

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.

It Takes A Newton To Forge A Newton. What Man Could Have Fabricated A Jesus? None But A Jesus.

I Do Not Pretend To Understand The Moral Universe; The Arc Is A Long One, My Eye Reaches But Little Ways; I Cannot Calculate The Curve And Complete The Figure By The Experience Of Sight, I Can Divine It By Conscience. And From What I See I Am Sure It Bends Towards Justice.

Disappointment Is Often The Salt Of Life.

The Miraculous Revelation Of The Old Testament And The New, The Miracles Of Famous Men, Jews, Gentiles, Or Christians, — Then Franklin Had No Religion At All; And It Would Be An Insult To Say That He Believed In The Popular Theology Of His Time, Or Of Ours, For I Find Not A Line From His Pen Indicating Any Such Belief.