Top 89 Quotes About Tecumseh
#1. War is hell." - William Tecumseh Sherman "Sherman was totally my bitch." - War
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#2. Tecumseh recognized that standing alone is never the way. There is strength in numbers.
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#3. Bosh. I find a rival - but no, I won't flatter myself that Tecumseh Fox would consider himself a rival of Dol Bonner - I find an eminent detective in your apartment, and that alone is enough, without adding that he is concealed in your bedroom while I am discussing my business with you ...
Rex Stout
#5. If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
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#6. We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.
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#7. I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.
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#10. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see that in the end you will surely fail.
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#12. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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#13. My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
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#14. I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
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#15. 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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#16. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
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#18. An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
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#19. I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.
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#21. You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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#22. I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
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#23. 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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#24. 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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#27. A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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#28. We have good corporals and good sergeants and some good lieutenants and captains, and those are far more important than good generals.
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#29. After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.
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#30. The carping and bickering of political factions in the nation's capital reminds me of two pelicans quarreling over a dead fish.
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#31. There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
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#33. I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
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#34. The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.
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#35. 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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#36. But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
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#40. 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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#41. The more Indians we can kill ... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.
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#42. The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.
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#44. I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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#48. The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
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#49. 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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#50. I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
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#51. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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#52. The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
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#53. I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
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#54. This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
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#55. Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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#57. If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
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#59. 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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#60. I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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#61. Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.
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#62. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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#64. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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#65. 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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#67. 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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#69. If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
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#70. I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash-and it may be well that we become so hardened.
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#72. Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!
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#73. You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!
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#74. We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.
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#78. Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.
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#80. 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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#81. You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it ... Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?
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#82. 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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#84. Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.
William Tecumseh Vernon
#85. An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
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#86. 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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#87. From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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#88. When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
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#89. Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.
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