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" Granted, he found little to say for the Plains Indians, an uninteresting race in need of humanization, made hideous by nature. He assumed everyone was an enemy until proven otherwise, and expected they would have to be killed, since violence was “the only corrective they understand. "

, Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, The Peace They Forged


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 quote : Granted, he found little to say for the Plains Indians, an uninteresting race in need of humanization, made hideous by nature. He assumed everyone was an enemy until proven otherwise, and expected they would have to be killed, since violence was “the only corrective they understand.