America is a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
– Theodore Parker
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
– Theodore Parker
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
– Theodore Parker
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
– Theodore Parker
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
– Theodore Parker
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
– Theodore Parker
Politics is the science of urgencies.
– Theodore Parker
Remorse is the pain of sin.
– Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
– Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
– Theodore Parker
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
– Theodore Parker
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.