Quotes from Bob Blaisdell

Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense and for faith no fulfilment.

Why should you take by force that from us which you can have by love?

I have never heard Ill of some Person, I always impute it to defective Intelligence; for there are none without their Faults, no not one.

My little daughter, twelve years of age, was with me. I gave her a rope, and told her to catch a horse and join the others who were cut off from the camp. I have not seen her since, but I have learned that she is alive and well.

Thus the social order overthrown by a revolution is almost always better than the one immediately preceding it, and experience teaches us that, generally speaking, the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.

they all say they are my friends, and that I shall have justice, but while their mouths all talk right I do not understand why nothing is done for my people.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

Scandal, like other Virtues, is in part its own Reward, as it gives us the Satisfaction of making our selves appear better than others, or others no better than ourselves. My

I have neglected the Indians for many moons, but I will make them my people now if they obey me in this message.

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