Lewis Cass Quotes

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

The removal of the Indians was explained by Lewis Cass—Secretary of War, governor of the Michigan territory, minister to France, presidential candidate: A principle of progressive improvement seems almost inherent in human nature. . . . We are all striving in the career of life to acquire riches of honor, or power, or some other object, whose possession is to realize the day dreams of our imaginations; and the aggregate of these efforts constitutes the advance of society. But there is little of this in the constitution of our savages.

The surprising objects that you see when you leave your own Grand Republic and go traveling—pink snakes and polar bears—are nothing beside what you find when you stay at home and have a new girl and meet her friends, whose resentment of you is only less than your amazement that there are such people and that she likes them.

The Indians melted away, not because civilization destroyed them,’ growled the historian Francis Parkman in 1867, ‘but because their own ferocity and intractable indolence made it impossible that they should exist in its presence.’ This view echoed the opinion of the early nineteenth-century politician and self-proclaimed authority on Indians Lewis Cass, who believed that some ‘strong exciting’ racial characteristic impelled native people to ‘Their own ceaseless hostilities [which] have, more than any other cause, led to the melancholy depopulation

Le persone possono dubitare di ciò che dici ma crederanno a ciò che fai.

Le persone possono dubitare di ciò che dici ma crederanno a ciò che fai.