58 Quotes by Daniel Boone

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

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.

Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.

I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.

Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.

I'm going now. My time has come.

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!