"There is no sadder sight than a..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.”

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

“We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.”

“Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.”

“Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.”

“Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.”

“We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.”