"I believe that the white man is the only man who can make a success of this country."

"I am not in the least concerned with the abstract rights of the matter, but with the concrete facts."

"I have never been a man who has been afraid to speak his mind, and I have never been a man who has been afraid to do what he thought was right."

"I am not a man of words; I am a man of deeds."

"We should treat the Indian as an individual, and not as a member of a tribe."