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> [The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/the-primal-principle-of-democracy-is-the-worth-and-dignity-of-the/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

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## More by Edward Bellamy

> [Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/hold-the-period-of-youth-sacred-to-education-and-the-period-of/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/human-history-like-all-great-movements-was-cyclical-and-returned-to/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/when-you-come-to-analyze-the-love-of-money-which-was-the-general/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/no-republic-can-long-exist-unless-a-substantial-equality-in-the/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/the-primal-principle-of-democracy-is-the-worth-and-dignity-of-the/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/why-when-the-world-gets-to-understand-about-it-i-expect-that-two-men/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/equal-wealth-and-equal-opportunities-of-culture-have-simply-made-us/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/the-most-dangerous-lovers-women-have-are-men-of-cordis-s-feminine/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/an-american-credit-card-is-just-as-good-in-europe-as-american-gold/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/there-is-no-such-thing-in-a-civilized-society-as-self-support-in-a/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/looking-backward-was-written-in-the-belief-that-the-golden-age-lies/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/people-nowadays-interchange-gifts-and-favors-out-of-friendship-but/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/the-nation-guarantees-the-nurture-education-and-comfortable/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/buying-and-selling-is-essentially-antisocial/)

[Edward Bellamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-bellamy/)

> [Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-bellamy/badly-off-as-the-men-were-in-your-day-they-were-more-fortunate-than/)

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