Billy Packer quotes

Billy Packer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.”
“Kentucky wants to occupy some clock”
“Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.”

Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books
“My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.”

Source : "Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone". Book by Nancy Ellis, 2011.
“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”
“You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.”
“You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
“Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.”
“For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.”
“You turn the handle the way it goes, not the way it ought to go”

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