On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

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

The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

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

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

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

[George W.] Bush's presidency was one of the great nightmares of my life to date.

You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

Let people hate you so long as they fear you.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.