You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

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

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.