Crazy Horse

"A warrior's heart knows no defeat."

"The earth is the mother of all people."

"We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home."

"Behold, I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation."

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk."

"It is a good day to die."

"Strange and bitter fate for the Lakota people to love the land so much and have it taken away."

"The power of a vision is great."

"A man who would not fight for his family has no honor."

"The white man does not understand the Indian for the reason that he does not understand America."

"Sell a country? Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth?"

"Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their oneness with the universe."

"Do not grieve. Misfortunes will come to us all. Death will come to us all, and to the land, all is useful."

"The only thing that matters is that you move forward."

"There is no greater strength than in unity."

"I love the land and the buffalo and will not part with it."

"My friend, if I could take all the sadness from your heart and replace it with joy, I would."

"The path of the warrior is the path of truth."

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

"Respect all life. It is like us."

"The spirits of our ancestors guide our footsteps."

"A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground."

"There is wisdom in the old ways."

"The present moment is all we truly possess."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in the face of it."

"We must take the good the white man has brought and leave the bad."

"Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the great silence alone."

"The land is sacred. Every part of this earth is sacred to my people."

"Dreams and the dreamer are inseparable."

"With all things and in all things, we are relatives."