Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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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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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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.
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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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The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.”
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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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I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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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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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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