I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world.
TECUMSEHFrom my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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