Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

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.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.