I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we can get rid of the negroes ... I believe that it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate, which they could have to themselves.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.

I couldn't be two faced. If I had two faces, I wouldn't wear this one.