The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

In battle, the ONLY bullets that count are those that hit.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.