“It is one of those irreconcilable conflicts that will end only in one way, one or the other must be exterminated. ... We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children.” “The more Indians we can kill this year, the less will have to be killed next year,” wrote Sherman. “They all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.”

–General Sherman, quoted in Lew Rockwell, *Against the State*, pp. 42-43.

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