This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULLGo back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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