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> [We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/we-are-going-by-you-without-fighting-if-you-will-let-us-but-we-are/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

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## More by Chief Joseph

> [We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/we-did-not-know-there-were-other-people-besides-the-indian-until/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-would-give-up-everything-rather-than-have-the-blood-of-white-men/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-am-tired-of-talk-that-comes-to-nothing-it-makes-my-heart-sick-when/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/let-me-be-a-free-man-free-to-travel-free-to-stop-free-to-work/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-have-asked-some-of-the-great-white-chiefs-where-they-get-their/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/good-words-will-not-give-my-people-good-health-and-stop-them-from/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [It does not take many words to speak the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/it-does-not-take-many-words-to-speak-the-truth/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [“I will fight no more forever”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-will-fight-no-more-forever/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-do-not-believe-that-the-great-spirit-chief-gave-one-kind-of-men-the/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [We ask to be recognized as men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/we-ask-to-be-recognized-as-men/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/we-soon-found-that-the-white-men-were-growing-rich-very-fast-and-were/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-have-heard-talk-and-talk-but-nothing-is-done/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [Look twice at a two-faced man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/look-twice-at-a-two-faced-man/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/i-believe-much-trouble-and-blood-would-be-saved-if-we-opened-our/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

> [For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chief-joseph/for-a-short-time-we-lived-quietly-but-this-could-not-last-white-men/)

[Chief Joseph](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chief-joseph/)

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