Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

I had rather have everybody on my side than be armed to the teeth.

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 do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

... so far as religion is concerned, argument is adjourned.