The Indian is a human being.

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• George Crook:

  First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be t

• George Crook:

  But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

• George Crook:

  We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just

• George Crook:

  The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is

• August Wilhelm von Schlegel:

  Literature is the immortality of speech.

• August Wilhelm von Schlegel:

  In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

• Joshua Chamberlain:

  My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right

• Joshua Chamberlain:

  The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with

• Joshua Chamberlain:

  Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sor

• Joshua Chamberlain:

  We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing s