Famous quotes containing the words native american, native and/or american:
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than Ill to the West return,
Ill beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (15911674)
“If today there is a proper American sphere of influence it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fatea sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (19111978)