The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.

Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind.

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.