“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

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?

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

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event.

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

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

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.

If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would there be left to bind society together?

If you give in to intimidation, you’ll go on being intimidated

Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Iran is determined to use peaceful nuclear technology and no intimidation or threat can make us give it up.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Since I was inexperienced in films, I thought it would be very intimidating to work with experienced people like Sanjay Suri and Samir Soni. But I must say they are very encouraging. They clapped when I gave a good shot.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn’t be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.