"I have always been fond of the West and its people, and I have always felt that the true American spirit was to be found there."

"I have always been a strong advocate of the policy of 'a fair field and no favor.'"

"I am a firm believer in the doctrine that a man should do his best, and let the rest take care of itself."

"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."

"The most important of all qualities in a public man is courage."