The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEH
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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