"I have always been a man of principle, and my principles have always been in the right direction."

"The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with a steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks, constitutes a nati…"

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger ra…"

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I intend to write that history."