"No man can be a complete master of himself who is not also master of his environment."

"I am not afraid of the future, for I believe in the American people."

"The truth is that the only way to get a thing done is to do it."

"We are participants, whether we would or not, in the life of the world."

"The white men of the South are the only men among us who have at all times, with a spirit and a method that no one can successfully question, protected the purity of the ballot box."