"I don't think there is any use of my going into the matter of the lynching. I will not say anything about it one way or the other."

"I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."

"The joy of life is to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one."

"The Negro is a perfectly stupid race."

"I am a man of the West, and I have lived among the cowboys and the hunters and the miners and the ranchmen, and I know them, and I know their ways."