The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

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.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

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.

The country is not in good condition.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.