One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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.

I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamour for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or son of some poor widow away off in some modest community, or perhaps the scion of a great family, who will have to do the fighting.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.