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Quotes by Theodore Parker

4 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. *** Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.— filed under Character

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. If he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.— filed under Character

There is what I call the American idea. *** This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, -that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom. S.— filed under Government

All men desire to be immortal.— filed under Immortality