I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
— Theodore Roosevelt Modern

US President, progressive era

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Speech on American expansionism

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1886

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/theodore-roosevelt-and-the-indian-1538059…

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