Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
TECUMSEHLive your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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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 is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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