I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

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

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in the social order as more important than the wages of money [interest].

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".