There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

Ideas control the world.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

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

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

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