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Inspirational Quotes by Chief Joseph
- The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
- We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
- Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
- I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.
- I know that my race must change.
- We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
- It takes few words to tell the truth.
- I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
- Words do not pay for my dead people.
- I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
- I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
- My people were divided about surrendering.
- We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
- I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
- If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
- War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
- I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
- I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.
- I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
- I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
- Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
- Good words will not give me back my children.
- When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.
- We ask to be recognized as men.
- From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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