That is the way in which we Theosophists work at politics.

We go to the root to build character, and we know that noble characters will make a noble and also a prosperous nation.

But you can no more make a nation of free men out of children untrained in duty and in righteousness, than you can build a house that will stand if you use ill-baked bricks and rotten timber.
Our keynote in politics is Brotherhood.

That worked out into life will give you the nation that you want.
And what does Brotherhood mean?
It means that everyone of us, you and I, every man and woman throughout the land, looks on all others as they look on their own brothers, and acts on the same principle which in the family rules.

You keep religion out of politics?
You cannot, without peril to your State; for unless you teach your people that they are a Brotherhood, whether or not they choose to recognise it, you are building on the sand and not on the rock.