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.
TECUMSEHGive thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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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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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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