Frontier Quotes

“I'm a salt-river roarer! I'm a ring-tailed screamer! I'm a regular screamer from the ol' Massassip'! WHOOP!”

“Let the girls be sheep, and the boys be deer.”

“The advance of the frontier has meant a steady movement away from the influence of Europe, a steady growth of independence on American lines.”

“The deep ocean is the final frontier on our planet.”

“I'm half horse and half alligator and a touch of the earthquake.”

“The deep ocean is the last great frontier on our planet.”

“Hang 'em first, try 'em later.”

“I know the law. I'm its sole dispenser west of the Pecos.”

“This court is now in session, and if you've got a case, spit it out.”

“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”

“The frontier is wherever men are not.”

“The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.”

“The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization.”

“American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.”

“From the conditions of frontier life came intellectual traits of profound importance.”

“But the most important effect of the frontier has been in the promotion of democracy here and in Europe.”

“Our western life, in those first days, was a rough affair.”