The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us ... [T]hey have, in a great measure, ceased to be an object of terror, and have become that of commiseration. (John C. Calhoun)

The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us ... [T]hey have, in a great measure, ceased to be an object of terror, and have become that of commiseration.

John C. Calhoun

Related topics

becoming commiseration daily dependent great hey less measure object terror

Related quotes

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Romeo LeBlanc

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

Frances Farmer

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

James Madison

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville