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.
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
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Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
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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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Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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