Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
TECUMSEHLove 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.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
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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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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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