Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe. I would not then come to Governor Harrison to ask him to tear up the treaty, and to obliterate the landmark, but I would say to him, "Sir, you have the liberty to return to your own country."

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.