42 Quotes by Tecumseh

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. 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."

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

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?

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

The Great Spirit is angry with all men that tell lies.

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

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.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.