..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

For love of country, they accepted death.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

Tortured for the Republic.