19 quotes
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.
My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.
The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004)
The agitation in the North-West Territories would have been constitutional and would certainly be constitutional to-day, if, in my opinion, we had not been attacked.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I have nothing but my heart and I have given it long ago to my country.
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.
I do not wish for my satisfaction the name of prophet. Generally that title is accompanied with such a burden, that if there is satisfaction for your vanity there is a check to it.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
We may be a small community and a Half-breed community at that — but we are men, free and spirited men, and we will not allow even the Dominion of Canada to trample on our rights.
The History of Canada (1970)
In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die.
I say that, I have been blessed by God and I hope that you will not take that as a presumptuous assertion.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I believed that I had a mission, I believe that I had a mission at this very moment.
I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the Half-breeds, and if I am, I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
My father bless me, according to the views of thy Providence which are beautiful and without measure.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I have not assumed to myself that I had a mission.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
Even if I was going to be sentenced by you, Gentlemen of the Jury, I have this satisfaction that if I die, I will not be reputed by all men as insane, as a lunatic.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I wish to take notice that if there has ever been any contradiction in my life, it is at this moment, and do I appear excited? Am I very irritable? Can I control myself?
Address on sentencing (1885)
I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba; I know that though I have no open road for my influence, I have big influence concentrated, as a big amount of vapour in an engine.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
If I have a mission, I say "If " for the sake of those who doubt, but for my part it means "Since," since I have a mission, I cannot fulfil my mission as long as I am looked upon as an insane being-human being, at the moment that I begin to ascend that scale, I begin to succeed.
Address on sentencing (1885)
I am blessed by God. It is this trial that is going to show that I am going to be blessed by man during my existence, the benedictions are a guarantee that I was not wronged when by circumstance I was taken away from my adopted land to my native land.
Address to Grand Jury (1885)
I am contradicted at this moment on politics, and the smile that comes to my face is not an act of my will, so much it comes naturally, from the satisfaction that I prove that I experience seeing one of my difficulties disappearing.
Address on sentencing (1885)