"If the Republicans win today, they have to come down and find someone they trust and say here is a good man that can represent the viewpoint of this region."
"I should like to say, gentlemen, that some very, very great oaks have grown from small acorns--and he looks like a pretty good-sized acorn to me."
"If you remember, I was nominated over in Chicago, and immediately all the party strategists came to give me advice."
"And most of it, I suppose, was good."
"And I want to make one thing clear, my friends."
"But one thing I did know: that I had promised a lot of people that if ever I got in politics, I was going to come to the South."
"It has got to have such influence in all national affairs that, regardless of which party has come into power, the brains and the talent of the Southern States are as willing and as well organized, an..."
"With God's help, with our friends in the world, and with unity among ourselves, it will continue to be so, throughout all the years that lie ahead."
"Such friendships are many."
"I know that, because John Wisdom tells me you have been here since 9 o'clock this morning."
"And now this great port must meet the challenge of the coming decades."
"One thing they told me was to stay out of the South."