Bravery Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely…

— Nelson A. Miles

“{Excerpt from a message from one of the Cherokee chiefs - Onitositaii, commonly known as Old Tassle} ... 'If, therefore, a bare march, or…

— John Ehle

Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than…

— John Muir

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that…

— Wallace Stegner

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

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved —…

— Wallace Stegner

Soldier blue in the barren wastes. Hunting and killing their game. Raping the women and wasting the men. The only good Indians are tame.

— Iron Maiden

The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible…

— John Lawson

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or…

— Thomas Jefferson

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...

— John Muir