"I fear that the people are not yet ready for a black man to be president."

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."

"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

"My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch, but once scratched, it is impossible to rub out."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act ane…"