Quotes about Frontier

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

But there's something earthy about my response to God that further sickens Satan. I believe he views disabilities as his last great stronghold to defame the good character of God. Suffering is that last frontier he exploits to smear God's trustworthiness.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.