You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

It does not take many words to tell the truth

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.