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.”
TECUMSEHWhen you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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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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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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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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