"Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no……" — Zebulon Pike
"Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you."
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32 Quotes by Zebulon Pike
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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…
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
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On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.
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American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not…
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force…
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The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors,…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
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