Quotes from Daniel Boone

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

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

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

I have never been lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Daniel Boone, when asked if he ever got lost out in the wilderness, replied, "I can't say I was ever lost, but I was once bewildered for about 3 days.

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

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

You see now how little nature requires, to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things, and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence, and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briers and thorns.

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. — Daniel Boone

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

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.