I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization. The liquor seller is simply and only a privileged malefactor - a criminal.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.