These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.