The business of the country is business.

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.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.