Quotes by Daniel Boone

“I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.”

“I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.”

“Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.”

“In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.”

“We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.”

“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”

“Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.”

“Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!”

“I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.”

“May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!”

“I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.”

“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from ...”

“Situated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wilderness, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happiness we experienced. I often observed to my brother, You see now how litt...”

“I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.”

“I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.”

“Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to r...”

“Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.”

“Ain't nobody ever cut 5 centers, lessen' it were Dan'l Boone.”

“Of all men, saving Sylla, the man-slayer, Who passes for in life and death most lucky Of the great names which in our faces stare,The General Boon, back-woodsman of Kentucky,Was happiest amongst mo...”

“Westward lay the march of American Empire. Within thirty years of the establishment of the Union nine new states had been formed in the Mississippi valley, and two in the borders of New England. As...”