Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Tecumseh /tᵻˈkʌmsə, tᵻˈkʌmsi/ tə-KUM-sə, tə-KUM-seewas a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacywhich opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812...
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brother native-american fighting
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.
country father heart
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.
strength being-strong break
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
tribes fortune makers
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
good-morning strength thanksgiving
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.
life death wisdom
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.
country children native-american
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
reform sooner trying war
War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
brought cannot country curses deserve people pour refine war
War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.
aim dread fear follow whip
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.
aloud cry fired heard neither nor shot war wounded
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
crazy american-civil-war grants
Grant stood by me when I was crazy...
war soldier matter
War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
running military politics
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.