Stand Watie Quotations

I have always been opposed to killing women and children although our enemies have done it, yet I shall always protest against any acts of that kind.

If I commit an error I do it without bad intention.

I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

Sometimes I examine myself throughly and I will always come to the conclusion that I am not such a bad man at last as I am looked upon.

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.