"The valor shown alike by the men of the North and the men of the South as they battled for the right as God gave them to see the right, is now part of what we, all of us, keep with pride."
"The man who fails to be honest and brave both in his political franchise and in his private business contributes to political and social anarchy."
"Experience has shown that the present laws are defective and need amendment."
"Only a heroic people could have battled successfully against the conditions with which the people of the South found themselves face to face at the end of the Civil War."
"It is idle to try to prevent such combinations. Our efforts should be to see that they work for the good and not for the harm of the body politic."
"The economic and political fabric had to be readjusted in the midst of dire want, of grinding poverty."
"I claim to be neither Northerner nor Southerner, neither Easterner nor Westerner, nothing but a good American, pure and simple."
"This Government was formed with as its basic idea the principle of treating each man on his worth as a man."
"Self-government is not too easy a thing."
"I felt what a privilege it is that I, as an American, have in claiming that you yourselves have no more right of kinship in Lee and Jackson than I have."
"The proud self-sacrifice, the resolute and daring courage, the high and steadfast devotion to the right as each man saw it, whether Northerner or Southerner, these qualities render all Americans forev..."
"Next only to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man's having worn the gray to entitle him to honor in my sight."