Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
TECUMSEHA single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
More Tecumseh Quotes
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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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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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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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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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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My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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