Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

We must forgive our enemies.