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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West QUOTES

1 " Count the day lost at which the setting sun sees at its close no worthy action done. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

2 " to be useful, to be pleasant with our playmates, respectful to superiors, just to all, black or white, good to the poor not showing pride or selfishness but kindness and good will . . . and to see to it that we looked to our own, more than to others’ faults. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

3 " Some serious Christians may possibly tremble for the Ark, and think the Christian religion in danger when divested of the patronage of civil power. They may fear inroads from licentiousness and infidelity, on the one hand, and from sectaries and party divisions on the other. But we may dismiss our fears, when we consider that truth can never be in real hazard, where there is a sufficiency of light and knowledge, and full liberty to vindicate it. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

4 " The sorrows of a mother are beyond all human consolation. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

5 " he had every kind of sense but common sense. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

6 " On the matter of advancing age, he liked to say, “My sun is far past its meridian. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

7 " At home, the Barker children were being raised, as one daughter, Catherine, would remember, “to be useful, to be pleasant with our playmates, respectful to superiors, just to all, black or white, good to the poor not showing pride or selfishness but kindness and good will . . . and to see to it that we looked to our own, more than to others’ faults. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

8 " But stiff-necked and somber he was not, any more than were most Puritans, contrary to latter-day misconceptions. Puritans were as capable as any mortals of exuding an affable enjoyment of life, as was he. Like many a Puritan he loved good food, good wine, a good story, and good cheer. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

9 " If ignorance could be banished from our land, a real millennium would commence. —EPHRAIM CUTLER "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

10 " Asked how it was that he could do so much and accomplish so much, he said, “I’ve learned to use every one of all the odds and ends of the time. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

11 " He had a favorite quotation from Virgil that to his family seemed the key to his character, “Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”—“Fortunate is he who understands the cause of things. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

12 " the setting sun sees at its close no worthy action done. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

13 " Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas”— "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

14 " A few years earlier, finding himself “without ready means of support,” Trumbull had offered to give Yale his collection of his work, if Yale would grant him an annual income of $1,000 for the rest of his life. Silliman then succeeded in raising the money to build a Trumbull gallery on campus designed by Trumbull, the first art gallery on any campus in the country. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

15 " 17 General Arthur St. Clair, whose little knowledge of or interest in Indians, combined with notably poor judgment, led to one of the worst defeats ever of the American army in a battle by the Wabash River on November 4, 1791, to be known only as St. Clair’s Defeat. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

16 " They accomplished what they had set out to do not for money, not for possessions or fame, but to advance the quality and opportunities of life—to propel as best they could the American ideals. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

17 " American ideals in a way nothing yet had, and was passed even before the Constitution. It guaranteed, in the first article, freedom of religion. The third article stated the need for education, and in the sixth article, most important of all, it declared there would be no slavery. Until then, despite the claim that “all men are created equal,” slavery continued throughout all of the thirteen states. Now, in five new states, a territory as large as the original thirteen, there was to be no slavery. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

18 " Fully fifteen years after his father’s success in championing passage of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance abolishing slavery in the territory, he had carried the same banner of abolition and with success. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

19 " In the election selecting Rufus Putnam and Ephraim Cutler as delegates to the convention, a black servant of Colonel Israel Putnam, Christopher Malbone, also known as Kit Putnam, was permitted to cast his ballot in the District of Marietta. It was considered to have been the first vote cast by a free black African in the Northwest Territory. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

20 " It was an act of wholehearted fortitude and the result was never to be forgotten. “It cost me every effort I was capable of making,” he wrote, “and it passed by a majority of one vote only.” Fully fifteen years after his father’s success in championing passage of the 1787 Northwest Ordinance abolishing slavery in the territory, he had carried the same banner of abolition and with success. "

― David McCullough , The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West