I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.

The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

Ease up, the play is over.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.