--- title: "1 Things Gave Quotes By Tecumseh" description: "1 Things Gave quotes by Tecumseh. Plus more from Tecumseh and more Things Gave sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/tecumseh-16912_all-things_the-great-spirit-made-all-things-he-gave_2547838.jpg" --- > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/the-great-spirit-made-all-things-he-gave-the-white-people-a-home/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/tecumseh-16912_all-things_the-great-spirit-made-all-things-he-gave_2547838.jpg) ## More by Tecumseh > [Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/where-today-are-the-pequot-where-are-the-narragansett-the-mohican-the/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/my-father-the-sun-is-my-father-and-the-earth-is-my-mother-and-on-her/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/brothers-the-white-people-are-like-poisonous-serpents-when-chilled/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/prepare-a-noble-death-song-for-the-day-when-you-go-over-the-great/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/when-the-legends-die-the-dreams-end-there-is-no-more-greatness/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/i-am-a-shawnee-my-forefathers-were-warriors-their-son-is-a-warrior/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/show-respect-to-all-people-but-grovel-to-none/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/where-today-are-the-pequot-where-are-the-narragansett-the-mohican-the-2/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/you-too-will-be-driven-away-from-your-native-land-and-ancient-domains/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers… Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/no-tribe-has-the-right-to-sell-even-to-each-other-much-less-to/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [I am Shawnee! I am a warrior! My forefathers were warriors. From them I took only my birth into this world. From my tribe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/i-am-shawnee-i-am-a-warrior-my-forefathers-were-warriors-from-them-i/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view and demand that they respect yours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/trouble-no-one-about-their-religion-respect-others-in-their-view-and/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/always-give-a-word-or-a-sign-of-salute-when-meeting-or-passing-a/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/i-have-made-myself-what-i-am-and-i-would-that-i-could-make-the-red/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) > [Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tecumseh/sing-your-death-song-and-die-like-a-hero-going-home/) [Tecumseh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tecumseh/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/things-gave/tecumseh/#itemlist", "name": "1 Things Gave Quotes By Tecumseh", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. 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