"A zeal for the defence of their country……" — Daniel Boone
"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 army of experienced warriors."
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Daniel Boone
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29 Quotes by Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone has 29 quotes on this site.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in…
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On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and…
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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live…
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with…
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the…
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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