Frederick Jackson Turner Quotes
- That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,…
- So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
- Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of…
- The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
- America has been another name for opportunity.
- Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions…
- The West is now closed.
- The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.