Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

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

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.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny.