I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEHSing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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 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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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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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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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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