Henry Adams - Reform would be difficult, for Indian warriors though

Reform would be difficult, for Indian warriors thought death less irksome than daily labor; and men who did not fear death were not easily driven to toil.

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Henry Adams, 1838-1918, Historian, History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison

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