It does not require many words to speak the truth.

- Chief Joseph

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

- Chief Joseph

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the re…

- Chief Joseph

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too mu…

- Chief Joseph

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

- Chief Joseph

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

- Chief Joseph

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

- Chief Joseph

The eye tells what the tongue would hide.

- Chief Joseph

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

- Chief Joseph