Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians.
– John Chivington
Colonel John Chivington’s outburst when some regular army officers protested that to attack a peaceable Indian village would betray the army’s pledge of safety. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.