Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.