War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. – Chief Joseph
Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work. – Chief Joseph
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. – Chief Joseph
Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work. – Chief Joseph
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. – Chief Joseph
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. – Chief Joseph
If you asked somebody, what do you wish for in life? they wouldnt say happiness. I would have answered excitement, knowledge, God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not happiness. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. – Connie Nielsen
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it… – George Santayana, “Chapter VIII: Prerational Morality,” The Life of Reason: Volu