Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHBrothers, 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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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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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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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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 am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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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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