106 Quotes About Chiefs

  • Author Eddie Compass
  • Quote

    Not one of my deputy chiefs left, ... We had 150 officers trapped in eight feet of water. It wasn't 150 desertions. We were fighting odds that you could not imagine. We had no food. We had no water. We ran out of ammunition. We were fighting in waist-deep water.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author George Crook
  • Quote

    When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Quote

    For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Jack Kent Cooke
  • Quote

    I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

  • Tags
  • Share