Teddy Roosevelt said "They hated the Indians, and, as a rule, were brutally indifferent to their rights, while they looked down on the Federal Government as impotent." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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They hated the Indians, and, as a rule, were brutally indifferent to their rights, while they looked down on the Federal Government as impotent.

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Republican · New York

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This quote illustrates the frontiersmen's disdain for both Native Americans and the Federal Government's authority.

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