From Martin Kelly,
Your Guide to American History.
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"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my damn friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor nights."

"It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God."

"Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote, prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote."

"Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little."

"In the great fulfillment we must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation."

"The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America."

"There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation."