Famous Quotes & Sayings

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Black Kettle

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.

Black Kettle

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.

Black Kettle

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

Black Kettle

I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be.

Peter Marshall

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

Peter Marshall

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Peter Marshall

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Black Kettle

I have done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some will not listen and since the fighting began, I have not been able to keep them at home.

Peter Marshall

Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything.

Jefferson Davis

Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

Standing Bear

And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth.

John Randolph

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

Ernest Thompson Seton

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

Ernest Thompson Seton

At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.

John Randolph

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

John L. Lewis

Five of the corporations in the steel industry elected to resist collective bargaining and undertook to destroy the steel workers' union.

Martin King

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Ernest Thompson Seton

In southern settlements, where the Lynx is little known, it is painted as a fearsome beast of limitless ferocity, strength, and activity.

John Randolph

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Black Kettle

The Cheyennes do not fight at all this side of the Arkansas, but north some young warriors were fired upon and then the fight began.