The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

You whites make all the ammunition.

If you have one clean hand and one dirty, you do not get two clean hands by rubbing them together.

We focus on the reasons why we ‘can’t’ at the expense of the far greater reasons why we ‘can’.

I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.

Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.

We didn't win the Cold War, we were just a big bank that bankrupted a smaller bank because we had an arms race that wiped the Russians out.

Weeds are out most successful cultivated crop.

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.