Indian Peace Commission

"If the savage resists, civilization, with the ten commandments in one hand and the sword in the other, demands his immediate extermination."

"One thing is demonstrated, either the Indians must give way or we must abandon all west of the Missouri River and confess as you say that forty millions of whites are cowed by a few thousand savages."

"I believe, however, religiously, that the only ultimate solutions of this whole question is, that the Indian shall take his place among other men and accept the march of civilization, as he must ultimately, or there is nothing except his destiny that awaits him, which is extinction."

"I will sign, and if there is anything wrong afterwards I will watch the commissioners, and they will be the first one that I will whip."

"[A]griculture and manufactures should be introduced among them as rapidly as possible; schools should be established which children should be required to attend; their barbarous dialects should be blotted out and the English language substituted."

"You must have the protection of the President of the United States and his white soldiers or disappear, from the earth...We have not been making war with you. You are at war with us. We have not commenced yet."