The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Black man, you are on your own.
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
A man is known by the company he organizes.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.