American Indians

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or indians:

“The American people is out to get the kaiser. We are bending every nerve and every energy towards that end; anybody who gets in the way of the great machine the energy and devotion of a hundred million patriots is building towards the stainless purpose of saving civilization from the Huns will be mashed like a fly. I’m surprised that a collegebred man like you hasn’t more sense. Don’t monkey with the buzzsaw.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“The ferryman had told us that all the best Indians were gone except Polis, who was one of the aristocracy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)