"Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord."

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... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war.

— Theodore Roosevelt