We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

My best training came from my father.

The wisest thing to do with a fool is to encourage him to hire a hall and discourse to his fellow-citizens . Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to the air.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.