The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

- Red Cloud

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nati…

- Red Cloud

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. …

- Red Cloud

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

- Red Cloud

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

- Red Cloud

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the…

- Red Cloud

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

- Red Cloud

You whites make all the ammunition.

- Red Cloud

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

- Red Cloud