Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

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.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas...

Life is hard but so very beautiful

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.