Quotes about Native Population

Ross Douthat

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

Queen Victoria

Went to the White drawing-room to receive three Chiefs from Bechuanaland,…. One of their chief objects in coming was to obtain a permit from the Government to suppress strong drink, which demoralises and kills the poor natives. Alas! everywhere this terrible evil, which has such a fatal effect on the population, seems to follow civilization!

Francis Amasa Walker

The appearance of vast numbers of men, foreign in birth and often in language, with a poorer standard of living, with habits repellent to our native people, of an industrial grade suited only to the lowest kind of manual labor, was exactly such a cause as by any student of population would be expected to affect profoundly the growth of the native population. Americans shrank alike from the social contact and the economic competition thus created. They became increasingly unwilling to bring forth sons and daughters who should be obliged to compete in the market for labor and in the walks of life with those whom they did not recognize as of their own grade and condition.

Although a very learned man, Walker was paranoid about Immigration. In this quotation he actually tried to argue that Americans would actually be more reluctant to have children if those children have to grow up and compete with immigrants. It seems funny to us today, but at the time, with few Americans educated, men like Walker had credibility even when they were absurd. No one else, even the most paranoid nativists ever suggested that immigration reduced the fertility rate of the existing American population. The lower fertility rates have always been associated with more affluence and the existence of a social safety net, where for most immigrants, conditions in their countries of origin realistically made their children the only social security and social safety net that they had.

Sabine Baring-Gould

The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.

Standing Bear

The pressure that has been brought to bear upon the native people, since the cessation of armed conflict, in the attempt to force conformity of custom and habit has caused a reaction more destructive than war, and the injury has not only affected the Indian, but has extended to the white population as well.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower.

Martin Amis

The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population.

Ronald Bird

Any immigration policy carries costs and benefits and that policies differ in the ways in which they distribute these costs and benefits among the native population.

Ann Coulter

Britain makes it absolutely, blindingly clear that it is liberal social welfare policies. And they have turned a good chunk of their native population into animals. They are absolute animals. They are not humans with free will. They eat, they screw, they drink.

Native Population Quotes