We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
TECUMSEHTrouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
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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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The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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?
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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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Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.
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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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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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So 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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