Civil war Quote by Abraham Lincoln

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to…

— John Sutter

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good…

— Anna Mae Aquash

“Fight it must, but let that fight be not a civil war against its own blood kindred but against the dangerous foreign races, whether…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â1882

“Rebels are simply oppressed individuals demanding their rights.”

— Sharon Ashwood

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike…

— Chief Joseph

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals,…

— Jack Handey

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers…

— Chief Joseph

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable…

— John Chivington

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they…

— George Crook