Tecumseh Quotes

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

It's a disagreeable thing to be whipped.

The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Hold the fort! I am coming!

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace.

I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.

Though I never ordered it, and never wished for it, I have never shed any tears over the event, because I believe that it hastened what we all fought for, the end of the war.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is at best barbarism.

I want peace, and believe it can only be reached through union and war, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect an early success.

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.

Do not despise or hate your neighbor because he has been a success; take care of your own case.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

War is at its best barbarism.

War is hell.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.

If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.