When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give t...
TECUMSEH SHAWNEE CHIEF With any character I play, I gravitate to the juxtaposition and humor.
SHAWNEE SMITH I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the enti...
SHAWNEE SMITH I don't like to see a scary image because it sticks in my mind. Which is maybe why I get hired t...
SHAWNEE SMITH I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptio...
TECUMSEH Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TECUMSEH Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village c...
TECUMSEH Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit...
TECUMSEH Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a l...
TECUMSEH I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only exis...
TECUMSEH Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
TECUMSEH Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
TECUMSEH From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.
TECUMSEH Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainte...
TECUMSEH Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty,...
TECUMSEH When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that w...
TECUMSEH When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give than...
TECUMSEH From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
TECUMSEH When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
TECUMSEH A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
TECUMSEH The white usurpation in our common country must be stopped, or we, its rightful owners, be forever d...
TECUMSEH Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every yea...
TECUMSEH You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before ...
TECUMSEH As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably mak...
TECUMSEH We played well at times, ... We had to move our hitters to hit around them, and we finally figured o...
TECUMSEH I golfed out here a couple times in the last couple days and I knew it was going to be rough for the...
TECUMSEH Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web,...
CHIEF SEATTLE I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dea...
CHIEF SEATTLE We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t...
CHIEF SEATTLE Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
CHIEF SEATTLE Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, ever...
CHIEF SEATTLE What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness o...
CHIEF SEATTLE There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in sprin...
CHIEF SEATTLE How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own...
CHIEF SEATTLE Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does...
CHIEF SEATTLE Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is me...
CHIEF SEATTLE If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no troub...
CHIEF JOSEPH Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is me...
CHIEF SEATTLE Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the we...
CHIEF SEATTLE I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunit...
CHIEF JOSEPH Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
CHIEF JOSEPH We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Cha...
CHIEF JOSEPH It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
CHIEF JOSEPH The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
CHIEF JOSEPH I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled...
CHIEF JOSEPH The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our ...
CHIEF JOSEPH We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when...
CHIEF JOSEPH I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
CHIEF JOSEPH I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
CHIEF JOSEPH An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
CHIEF JOSEPH We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns...
CHIEF JOSEPH I want the white people to understand my people.
CHIEF JOSEPH Good words will not give me back my children.
CHIEF JOSEPH Words do not pay for my dead people.
CHIEF JOSEPH I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chie...
CHIEF JOSEPH All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
CHIEF JOSEPH I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
CHIEF JOSEPH It does not require many words to speak the truth.
CHIEF JOSEPH Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
CHIEF JOSEPH We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
CHIEF JOSEPH I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
CHIEF JOSEPH We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mis...
CHIEF JOSEPH I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
CHIEF JOSEPH The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought ...
CHIEF JOSEPH I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events,...
CHIEF ODUDUWA What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness ...
CHIEF SEATTLE All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with al...
CHIEF SEATTLE You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
CHIEF JOSEPH My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when...
CHIEF SEATTLE When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt.
CHIEF ARADI Can you believe their backgrounds?
CHIEF ARADI I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.
CHIEF ARADI I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented ...
CHIEF ARADI It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.
CHIEF ARADI From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
CHIEF JOSEPH Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will figh...
CHIEF JOSEPH Treat all men alike. Give them all the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
CHIEF JOSEPH You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. S...
CHIEF SEATTLE Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature...
CHIEF SEATTLE If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
CHIEF SEATTLE Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our ...
CHIEF JOSEPH When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall ha...
CHIEF SEATTLE Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure the...
CHIEF SEATTLE This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected l...
CHIEF SEATTLE all things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
CHIEF SEATTLE Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.
CHIEF SEATTLE Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the...
CHIEF SEATTLE General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back hom...
CHIEF JOSEPH To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
CHIEF SEATTLE Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn ho...
CHIEF SEATTLE These are senseless deaths in my personal opinion, ... I can't think of any reason I could give for ...
CHIEF JOSEPH Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he do...
CHIEF SEATTLE Every door opened others. The records show some interesting encounters with a very complicated commu...
CHIEF SEATTLE She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (...
CHIEF JOSEPH That's been resounded by many people,
CHIEF JOSEPH Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free...
CHIEF JOSEPH Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will figh...
CHIEF JOSEPH She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h...
CHIEF JOSEPH There is a legitimate place for him in a law enforcement agency. He is a unique individual and there...
CHIEF JOSEPH I am Cheif Oduduwa. I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situa...
CHIEF ODUDUWA I am Cheif Oduduwa. I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situa...
CHIEF ODUDUWA This is the way we want to interact with everyone. . . . That's always our goal. The more that we ca...
CHIEF JOSEPH Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
CHIEF SEATTLE Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay a...
CHIEF SEATTLE We're trying to bring all of that back, ... We've had teams come in, and we're encouraging public pa...
CHIEF JOSEPH We're very happy with stable water, ... However, we're not convinced we're out of the woods yet.
CHIEF JOSEPH For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountain...
CHIEF JOSEPH There is no death, only a change of worlds.
CHIEF SEATTLE It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not ...
CHIEF JOSEPH A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
CHIEF JOSEPH Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
CHIEF JOSEPH Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
CAPTAIN CHIEF My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
CHIEF SEATTLE Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's ...
CHIEF SEATTLE My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
CHIEF JOSEPH A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly ...
CHIEF JOSEPH My people were divided about surrendering.
CHIEF JOSEPH My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
CHIEF JOSEPH Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can ...
CHIEF SEATTLE Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
CHIEF SEATTLE Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls...
CHIEF SEATTLE (SEALTH), SUQUAMISH CHIEF I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for ...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name m...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN War is hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each o...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I intend to make Georgia howl.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with yo...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, an...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don&#...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, ...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting repor...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who c...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a sh...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile peopl...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not wi...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN War is at its best barbarism.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.'
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and t...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I re...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Hold the fort! I am coming!
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting report...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I intend to make Georgia howl."
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN In our Country . . . one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, an...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the pen...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what ...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impair...
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN Exactly why the assailants resorted to deadly force is not clear, nor why a drastic shift in 2005 ve...
CHIEF RONAL SERPAS not right now, I don't have time. Maybe next week.
CHIEF LEMAN PADELFORD We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.
CHIEF GARY OGDEN Once the committee has gone through all the correspondence a directive will be issued.
CHIEF MWELO NONKONYANA If you are in alone on a street in Paris, France, and you become unconscious, as long as someone cal...
CHIEF DONALD POIROT The paradigm of our current situation remains: the consumer prices also on imported goods stay high ...
CHIEF JUSTUS GAROëB All the men and women of the Montreal police department, including myself, are in shock about these ...
CHIEF YVAN DELORME Homicides are very rare. We live in a community where people pay their taxes and go to church.
CHIEF LEONARD GALLO After all the process, if he is guilty he will be fired.
CHIEF YVAN DELORME No one, not even his friends, suspected anything.
CHIEF YVAN DELORME Any time a violent crime strikes her, we take it personally. It has an effect on everyone and affect...
CHIEF PHILLIP SCOTT It will be a long process, unless we get a storm coming through and some rain wetting down the area.
CHIEF KIM FORBES The bomber used about (11 pounds) of explosives obtained locally, and we have collected his body par...
CHIEF NIAZ SIDDIQUI We are spending much more, but developing only a little.
CHIEF JUSTUS GAROëB The water was at zero visibility.
CHIEF RYAN NICHOLS By law, it's illegal for someone else to respond to a call if they're not dispatched there. Since we...
CHIEF RON HENRY A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lo...
CHIEF GARY OGDEN You should burn very cautiously. If you're burning your trash off, for example in a 55-gallon drum, ...
CHIEF GARY OGDEN Mr. Monroe looks like our prime suspect, but until we put these bullets to the test, we will not clo...
CHIEF LEONARD GALLO Every two years we have an election for a term of four years. The chief is in one category, and the ...
CHIEF LOUIE CHAVIS It offered us a means of economic development that might be lasting. But even then, as we made that ...
CHIEF JOYCE DUGAN Tempers are short. But I'm surprised that this happened. I can't even understand how a brother could...
CHIEF DAVID WYNN This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that...
CHIEF DANIEL OATES In the '70s, when I started here, your heroin was probably 7 to 15 percent pure. It was cut with cor...
CHIEF CHARLES HUSKA I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented ...
CHIEF LESTER ARADI It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.
CHIEF GARY OGDEN This is a complicated case.
CHIEF JODY LENAHAN If we see you doing it, you're going directly to jail.
CHIEF DAVID WYNN We just put a diver in the water and looked underneath the boat. There was nothing there.
CHIEF RYAN NICHOLS