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

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

Ideas control the world.