I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.