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.
TECUMSEHAlways give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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