Theodore Parker

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?