"Our only security against a savage foe, is to allow no security to him. The white man and the red man cannot dwell in harmony together. Nature forbids it. They are separated by the strongest possible antipathies, by color, by habits, by modes of thinking, and indeed by all the causes which engender hatred, and render strife the inevitable consequence of juxtaposition. Knowing these things, I experience no difficulty in deciding on the proper policy to be pursued towards them. It is to push a vigorous war against them; pursuing them to their hiding places without mitigation or compassion, until they all shall be made to feel that flight from our borders without the hope of return, is preferable to the scourges of war."

📜 Mirabeau Lamar, Second Annual Message To Congress, 1839
📍Hall of State Museum, Dallas, Texas