The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.
The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.
America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.
Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.
Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.
Only peace between equals can last.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.
Character, my friends, is a byproduct. It is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.
Is there any man here or any woman, let me say is there any child here, who does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
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