Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.

Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and f…

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from…

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen ... than witness the subservience in which the …

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself- a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never…