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.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
I see a very dark cloud on America’s horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.
Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
It’s bad. It’s damned bad.
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn’t know anything.