Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

Civilisation and profits go hand in hand.

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.