Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector