Quotes by Seattle, Chief

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to >>

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not w >>

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. >>

Quotations about America

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of huma >>

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsica >>

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an >>

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

Seattle, Chief