The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
TECUMSEHSo live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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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.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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 a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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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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The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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