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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tribes fortune makers
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
dream greatness legends
When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.
warrior son existence
I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
native-american views demand
Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.
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.
differences people body
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
fields batteries artillery
A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
native-american-indian indian-reservations indian
The only good Indian is a dead Indian
lions may fleas
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
latin voice people
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
tired mean gun
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.
expectations way resistance
The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.
army two able
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the days of Alexander, that an army with an inefficient commander was better than one with two able heads.
robbing bartering trading
...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.