The only good Indian is a dead Indian

At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.