I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

Great lives never go out they go on.

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?