What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

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

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.