“The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians …”

“The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us....”

— Thomas Jefferson

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Title: Wikiquote: Thomas Jefferson
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Letter to Benjamin Hawkins (13 August 1786) Lipscomb & Bergh ed. 5:390

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