Country Quote by John Wayne

Wayne: I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them ..... the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it…

— John Wayne

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

— Tecumseh

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…

— Amartya Sen

“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process.…

— Michael Crichton

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Here's to screwing up America so badly that the Native Americans wouldn't even want it back.

— Anonymous

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Because the Indians are planning to start war now, the common people want all of them destroyed so that they can live in peace;…

— Johann Martin Boltzius

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud…

— Richard M. Nixon

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a, sort of,…

— Dinesh D'Souza