Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
TECUMSEHLive your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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