We've heard the parish is wiped out, totally wiped out. Its hospitals, schools, homes and civic center are all under water. -Frederick Jackson Turner

 

We've heard the parish is wiped out, totally wiped out. Its hospitals, schools, homes and civic center are all under water.


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This quote is just one of 8 total Frederick Jackson Turner quotes in our collection. Frederick Jackson Turner is known for saying 'We've heard the parish is wiped out, totally wiped out. Its hospitals, schools, homes and civic center are all under water.' as well as some of the following quotes.

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 stark and strong and full of life out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.

Frederick Jackson Turner

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

Frederick Jackson Turner

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Frederick Jackson Turner

Stand at Cumberland Gap and watch the procession of civilization, marching single file - the buffalo following the trail to the salt springs, the Indian, the fur-trader and hunter, the cattle-raiser, the pioneer farmer - and the frontier has passed by. Stand at South Pass in the Rockies a century later and see the same procession with wider intervals between.

Frederick Jackson Turner

If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home.

Frederick Jackson Turner