I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

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.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.