Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work. – 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
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow. – Chief Joseph
All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. – Chief Joseph
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. – Thomas B. Macaulay