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 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, |
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 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, |
I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it |
I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights |
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. |
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class |
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. |
I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace. |
I can make more generals, but horses cost money. |
I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. |
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. |
I can't spare this man; he fights. |
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it |
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. |
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me |