When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHLet us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, “Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country.”
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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