Zebulon Pike Quotes

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• If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor,…
• He was a man, he always performed his promises.
• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
• Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
• On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
• American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
• It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes…
• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
• In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
• The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have…
• Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
• I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.
• They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
• There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the…
• The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much…
• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

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