Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Tecumseh /tᵻˈkʌmsə, tᵻˈkʌmsi/ tə-KUM-sə, tə-KUM-seewas a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacywhich opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812...
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The only good Indian is a dead Indian
lions may fleas
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
latin voice people
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
tired mean gun
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
sports blow thinking
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.
crazy history drunk
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
expectations way resistance
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
peace war boys
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.
army two able
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
peace war army
He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
robbing bartering trading
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
running military politics
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
military war
War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
party politics should
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.