Vine Deloria Jr. Quotes

I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

Before Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull had dream of soldiers falling from the sky.

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man's hunting ground.

FDR, as best as I can tell, had no kind of involvement at all in our conversion to the paper currency.

'The Hatfields and McCoys' is a classic tale of American history. These are names that are widely recognized, yet few people know the real story that made them famous.

The other day a woman came up to me and said, Didn't I see you on television? I said, I don't know. You can't see out the other way.

Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War." None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated. Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck." Ah. Now I remembered.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

The way we started was, Alison [McGhee] said, 'Tall girl, short girl.' We had no plans beyond that.

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that U.S. settlers totally displaced, and that narrative is not connected with the Isreal-Palestinian struggle at all.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

Later," Fang said to Ella and Dr. Martinez in that gushy, hyperemotional, overdramatic way he has.

. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

She'd always known he loved her, it had been the one certainty above all others that had never changed, but she had never said the words aloud and she had never meant them quite this way before. She had said it to him, and she hardly knew what she had meant. They were terrifying words, words to encompass a world.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.