Top 26 Tecumseh Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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#4. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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#5. I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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#6. You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.
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#7. Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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#8. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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#9. Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.
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#10. When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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#11. From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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#12. Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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#13. When Jesus Christ came upon the Earth, you killed Him. The son of your own God. And only after He was dead did you worship Him and start killing those who would not.
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#14. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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#18. 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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#19. My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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#20. Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
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#21. Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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#22. The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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#23. 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. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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#24. I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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#25. The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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#26. A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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