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.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Silence can never be misquoted.