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The animosities of elections should have no place in our Government, for government must concern itself alone with the common weal.

Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

If citizens do not like a law, their duty as honest men and women is to discourage its violation; their right is openly to work for its repeal.

It is not down in any map; true places never are

any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him

paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press

The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.

The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

The man that stands upon a principle is the same calm, dauntless, self-possessed man under all circumstances.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.