“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”

— Philip Sheridan

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/sheridan.htm
In response to Comanche Chief Tosawi stating "Me, Tosawi; me good Injun". Although Sheridan disputed having replied this, but biographer Roy Morris Jr. claims that popular history simply assumed that he did state it.

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