The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be …

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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, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). The writings of Thomas Jefferson
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