History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

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.

Ideas control the world.

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

Suicide is not a remedy

Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.