Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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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?
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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From my tribe I take nothing. I am the maker of my own destiny! And of that I might make the destiny of my red people, of our nation, as great as I conceive to in my mind, when I think of Weshemoneto, who rules this universe!
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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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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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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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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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