Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEHSell 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?
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, ‘Never! Never!’
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.
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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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