When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
TECUMSEHAlways give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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 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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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