Author: Tecumseh

Quotes

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

- Tecumseh

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

- Tecumseh

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

- Tecumseh

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?

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?

- Tecumseh

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.

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.

- Tecumseh

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

- Tecumseh

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

- Tecumseh

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.

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.

- Tecumseh

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

- Tecumseh

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