Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEHSell 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?
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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So 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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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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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We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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