"I am just a trifle more intent on punishing the Republican offender than the Democrat, because he is my own scoundrel."
"The average American is a pretty good fellow."
"We can afford to be divided on questions of mere partisanship."
"We urgently need in this country methods for expediting punishment, methods for doing away with delay, methods which will secure to the public an even chance with the criminal—I do not ask any more."
"The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life."
"I earnestly hope that the bench and the bar of the United States will in all proper ways seek to see to it that the loose customs...shall not be perverted so as to harm the whole public by giving the ..."
"The poor man who is true to you is the ultimately righteous, and the man who will steal for you will steal from you."
"There is no other people of which history tells which, having passed through such a war as we have passed through, now, after forty years, finds not only that the flag which had been rent asunder is o..."
"People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the simple homely virtues of honesty, courage and common sense are essential to the ful..."
"To the white population as well as to the black, it is of the utmost importance that the negro be encouraged to make himself a citizen of the highest type of usefulness."
"No American worthy of the name would fail to be stirred with patriotism as he comes into your magnificent State, into this magnificent city."
"Poor, indeed, would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than when he came into it."