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.

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.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

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