I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
TECUMSEHWill 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!’
More Tecumseh Quotes
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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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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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Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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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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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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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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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers….
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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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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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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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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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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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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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