"The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory, but to plant there a standard of liberty and honor and justice."

"The Klan was a necessary evil."

"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country."

"The Negro is a danger to the white race."

"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."