Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.
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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. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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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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When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
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