And we--we who are here for a little time--we who sometimes are given minds and means to fall in tune with God's smile--why, when we grow little and selfish, instead of getting in tune with the wish of God--why, we fail.

Then, indeed, we do not pay--we repudiate our debt to ourselves." "You are shaming me," he said slowly.

"But I see why they put you out of Washington." "But they can not put God out of Heaven! They can not turn back the stars! They can not stop the rush of those westbound feet, the spread of the millions, millions of blades of grass edging out, on.
That is what will make you see this 'higher law,' some time.

That is big politics, higher than what you call your traditions.

That will shame little men.