“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”

“My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.”

“I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.”

“No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”

“I will tell the truth wherever I please.”

“I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”