If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

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.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.