"An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward."

"We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone."

"I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country."

"You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up."

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

"I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else."

"People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive."

"We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life."