Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.

Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

If you are doing all you can to the fullest of your ability as well as you can, there is nothing else that is asked of a soul.

For us women, to be German meant, and still means, always to be strong.

Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.