Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sitting Bull

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
Sitting Bull

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Sitting Bull

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
Sitting Bull

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Sitting Bull

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
Sitting Bull

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Sitting Bull

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Sitting Bull

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
Sitting Bull

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Sitting Bull

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Sitting Bull