Quotes of Frontier - somelinesforyou

“ We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. ”

- Maxwell Maltz

“ Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. ”

- Dorothea Brande

“ Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. ”

- Learned Hand

“ There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. ”

- Charles Kettering

“ In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ”

- Herman Melville

“ America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world. ”

- James S. McDonnell

“ The street bred a gritty self-reliance in its children. It was their frontier. ”

- David Nasaw

“ The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life. ”

- Hal Borland

“ He's too old to remember where the boundaries are. ”

- James Wilson

“ The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. ”

- David Lloyd George

“ It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. ”

- Edward Dahlberg

“ Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere. ”

- Virgil

“ But more than all I pray that down the years we will remember there are always new frontiers. ”

- Birdsell Otis

“ If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date. ”

- Olin Miller

“ There are no frontiers in this struggle to the death… A victory for any country against imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all. ”

- Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

“ Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others… Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with…the other nations of the world… ”

- Lord Baden Powell

“ I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U… ”

- Eduardo Galeano

“ The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Frederick Jackson Turner
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