Tecumseh

“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.”

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.”

“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death... Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

“Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”

“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.”

“Brother, we all belong to one family; we are all children of the Great Spirit; we walk in the same path; slake our thirst at the same spring; and now we are assembled around one fire, to smoke one pipe.”

“My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother.”

“A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.”

“Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.”

“These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners.”

“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.”