Daniel Boone Quotes

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• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
• I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
• A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful…
• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every…
• On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires…
• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed…
• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her…
• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
• In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
• During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with…
• Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my…
• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the…
• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of…
• No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.
• I'm going now. My time has come.
• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

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