"The only way to be free is to be educated."

"We are going to be more and more careful to see that the men who come to this country are men who will be an addition to the strength of the country and not a detriment."

"The white men of the South are the only men among us who have at all times, with a spirit and a method that no one can successfully question, protected the purity of the ballot box."

"I am not afraid of the future, for I believe in the American people."

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."