Daniel Boone

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

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

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness.