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.
TECUMSEHThe way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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Brothers, 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.
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The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
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