Daniel Boone Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Daniel Boone quotes and sayings page 2 (explorer). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.”
“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!”
“Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.”
“On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.”
“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.”
“I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.”
“During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.”
“In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.”
“In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.”
“In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.”
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