If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we w…

Thomas Jefferson
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p.177
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all. ✨ Thomas Jefferson (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p.177

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