"Good words do not last long unless they…" — Chief Joseph
"Good words do not last long unless they amount to something."
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88 Quotes by Chief Joseph
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Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my…
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All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights…
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Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them."…
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We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn…
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The eye tells what the tongue would hide.
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike.…
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We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones…
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We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We…
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The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is…
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We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter…
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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