35 Quotes by Zebulon Pike

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.