"The Negro is not yet capable of self-government."

"The Negro is a perfectly stupid race."

"I have always been a believer in the doctrine that the nation which expects to be great must be able to fight."

"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."

"I do not want to be a professional politician."