Missouri Quotes
84 quotes by 68 authors
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These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are…
— William Henry Ashley
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The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
— Buffalo Bill
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As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in…
— Christopher Bond
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I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver…
— Ted Shackelford
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Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs.
— Mel Carnahan
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It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a…
— Jamie McMurray
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed…
— George Catlin
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri
— Dan Simmons
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How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more…
— Joe Posnanski
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For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring…
— Mel Carnahan
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Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I…
— Nathaniel Lyon
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But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or…
— Harry S. Truman
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Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than…
— DeLoss Dodds
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise…
— Ike Skelton
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I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts…
— Parley P. Pratt
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several…
— Charles Jencks
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We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and…
— Meriwether Lewis
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I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
— Steve Cropper
Who Wrote These Missouri Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 84 Missouri Quotes, led by these top contributors: