Politics is the science of urgencies. – Theodore Parker
The miser, starving his brothers body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. – 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
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. – Theodore Parker
I didnt become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. Its not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more. – Nick Clegg