George Rogers Clark quotes

“If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.”
-- George Rogers Clark

#Country Quotes

“Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted;”
-- George Rogers Clark

Source : Robert C. Alberts, George Rogers Clark (1975). “George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest”

#Men Quotes #Great Things Quotes #Wells Quotes

“Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.”
-- George Rogers Clark

Source : "The Buffalo Trace" by George R. Wilson, Indiana Historical Society Publications, volume 15, number 2, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, (pp. 189), 1946.

#Opportunity Quotes #Men Quotes #Victory Quotes

“I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.”
-- George Rogers Clark

Source : "Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778 - 1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark" by William Hayden English, vol. 2, (p. 789), 1896.

#Suffering Quotes #Honor Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“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.”
-- George Rogers Clark

Source : "Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone". Book by Nancy Ellis, 2011.

#Kentucky Quotes #Hands Quotes #Names Quotes

“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

“American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.”

“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”

“Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.”

“Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.”

“Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”

“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”

“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”

“It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.”