Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickenswith the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.

A living thing is born.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

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.

If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.