1596: Ely S. Parker Quotes
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/11/23
1861: “I am now about to report to you what we did.”
1865: “We are all Americans.”
1868: “I want to see Grant elected, because I think he is the best patriot and that he only can bring peace to the country.”
1869: “The question is still one of deepest interest, ‘What shall be done for the amelioration and civilization of the race?’”
1869: “The measures to which we are indebted for an improved condition of affairs are the concentration of the Indians upon suitable reservations.”
1869: “Much, however, remains to be done for the multitude yet in their savage state.”
1869: “There can be no question but that mischief has been prevented and suffering either relieved or warded off.”
1869: “The experiment has not been sufficiently tested to enable me to say definitively that it is a success.”
1885: “All my life I have occupied a false position.”
1885: “I never was ‘great’ and never expect to be.”
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