“I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.”

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. To seek for gold in the far west, Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. His presence here is an insult to the spirits of our ancestors.

You whites make all the ammunition.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land – the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can’t see it.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

I want my first son to be called ‘Tommy.’ It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

My mum’s always on at me to have children and blames ‘that stupid stage thing you do’ for me not already having a family.

Breaking things as a child seemed so easy, than fixing broken things as a adult.

I had a very positive, wonderful, happy upbringing, and still, for several reasons, I really didn’t enjoy being a child very much. I felt that I had no control over my life and everything seemed scarier and larger than life.

My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.

I believe that children are our future