Zebulon Pike Quotes
He was a man, that he always performed his promises, that he had never said he would return.
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.
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.
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.
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
