You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.