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

- Sitting Bull

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

- Sitting Bull

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

- 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

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

- Sitting Bull

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

- Sitting Bull

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

- Sitting Bull

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

- Sitting Bull

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

- Sitting Bull

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

- Sitting Bull

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

- Sitting Bull

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

- Sitting Bull

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

- 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

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

- Sitting Bull

God made me an Indian.

- 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

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

- Sitting Bull

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

- Sitting Bull

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

- Sitting Bull