In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.

To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, ["] and to preach there-from that, "In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread," to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

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.