You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
SITTING BULLHe put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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