"I will sign, and if there is anything wrong afterwards I will watch the commissioners, and they will be the first one…"

"You must have the protection of the President of the United States and his white soldiers or disappear, from the eart…"

"[A]griculture and manufactures should be introduced among them as rapidly as possible; schools should be established …"

"If the savage resists, civilization, with the ten commandments in one hand and the sword in the other, demands his im…"

"The object of greatest solicitude should be to break down the prejudices of tribe among the Indians; to blot out the …"

"I believe, however, religiously, that the only ultimate solutions of this whole question is, that the Indian shall ta…"

"[You] must understand that if peace is not now made all efforts on our part to make it are at an end."

"This building of homes for us is all nonsense. We don’t want you to build any for us. We would all die. My country is…"

"Of course I don’t believe in such things for commissions cannot come into contact with the fighting Indians, and to t…"

"One thing is demonstrated, either the Indians must give way or we must abandon all west of the Missouri River and con…"