• "Some men have doubted if I were ever of any use whatever to the territory or the state, but I have never retaliated in any way, believing that life is too short and duty too obligatory for hate and malice."
• Gen. William Henry Harrison Beadle, who spoke those words, was considered by many to have played a valuable role in the history of Dakota Territory and South Dakota. Beadle is regarded as instrumental in helping establish the public school system in the Dakotas and with safeguarding school land and the income from it.

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