"I am nothing, but truth is everything. I know I am right because I know I have no doubts."

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

"I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races."

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individu…"