"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the…"

"I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I cannot be wrong; and yet, how many think I am!"

"Negroes have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but not a right to social and political equality with whites."

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."

"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"