Frederick Jackson Turner quotes

“The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”
-- Frederick Jackson Turner

Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1

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“Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.”
-- Frederick Jackson Turner

Source : Frederick Jackson Turner, Martin Ridge (1993). “History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays”

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“That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.”
-- Frederick Jackson Turner

Source : Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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“So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.”
-- Frederick Jackson Turner

Source : Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “Shaping the American Character: The Significance of the Frontier in American History”, p.35, Now and Then Reader LLC

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“Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.”
-- Frederick Jackson Turner

Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2

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“America has been another name for opportunity.”
-- Frederick Jackson Turner

Source : Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go”

“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”

“It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan

“In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.”

Source : Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.”

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

“Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.”

Source : "Douglas Brinkley to write Katrina book". www.today.com. September 13, 2005.

“The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.”

Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Robert P. Porter 1; Turner 1

“American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”