"Then if you know why don't you help--you others ?" he asked.

"Don't you see that by standing aside, by keeping apart, you are doing all the harm that you can?
If democracy doesn't seem good enough for you, then get down into the midst of it and make it better.

That's the only way--the only way on earth to make a better democracy--by putting the best we've got into it.

You can't make bread rise from the outside.
You've got to mix the yeast with the dough, if you want it to leaven the whole lump." She had been standing with her hands clasped before her and her eyes on the sky beyond the window; and when he paused, with a husky tone in his voice, she spoke almost as if she were in a dream.

"I believe in you," she said, and then again, as he did not speak she repeated very slowly: "I believe in you." "That helps," he answered gravely.