The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good...
It is character that determines the nation's progress in the long run.
the successful performance of political duty depends absolutely upon the successful performance of domestic, of social d...
Every dollar put into the education of either white man or black man, in head, in hand, and in heart, yields rich divide...
Alabama has made a wonderful record.
I believe in the future of America, because I believe that the average American man, and the average American woman, is ...
Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it.
We must remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today.
It is in the interest, and for the protection, of the white man to see that the negro is educated.
What we need is the performance of duty, of the ordinary duty that the ordinary man or woman has to meet as he or she li...
Viewed from any angle, ignorance is the costliest crop that can be raised in any part of this Union.
People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the sim...
I will be through now in just two minutes more.
I believe in it with all my heart.
But to be a member of a self-governing community means that if you are to do your part in that community, you must posse...
The one thing this nation cannot afford to neglect is the education of the nation of the future.
It is not the President or the Senators or the Congressmen, or even the Governors, who make up our nation, who make the ...
Finally, and in closing, my friends, let me draw one more lesson from the Civil War; from the experience of the men of t...
