Too Many Chiefs And Not Enough Indians Quotes & Sayings

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31) — Stephen Dobyns

The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be. — Bill Lee

In October 1805, Stoddard's tour left St. Louis, including forty-five Indians from eleven tribes. They arrived in Washington in January 1806. Jefferson gave them the standard Great Father talk: "We are become as numerous as the leaves of the trees, and, tho' we do not boast, we do not fear any nation. . . . My children, we are strong, we are numerous as the stars in the heavens, & we are all gun-men." He followed the threat with the carrot: if they would be at peace with one another and trade with the Americans, they could be happy. (In reply, one of the chiefs said he was glad the Americans were as numerous as the stars in the skies, and powerful as well. So much the better, in fact, for that meant the government should be strong enough to keep white squatters off Indian lands.) — Stephen E. Ambrose

I wonder if this is the way it will be next year if I come to New York, or wherever I go - me trying to concentrate on college, on life, when all I'm doing is thinking about him. I wonder if he'll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school. — Jennifer Niven

There is nothing in which men more deceive themselves than in what they call zeal. — Joseph Addison

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery