Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.