Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.
I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
I never killed a man I didn't have to.
We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.