You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULLThis is a good day to die. Follow me!
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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