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.
TECUMSEHLove your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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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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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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