Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

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

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.