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George Rogers Clark Quotes

If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.

If a country is not worth protecting it is not worth claiming.

George Rogers Clark
Country, Ifs

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.

George Rogers Clark
Men, Great Things, Wells
Robert C. Alberts, George Rogers Clark (1975). “George Rogers Clark and the Winning of the Old Northwest”

My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.

George Rogers Clark
Names, Kentucky, Hands
"Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone". Book by Nancy Ellis, 2011.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

George Rogers Clark
Honor, Suffering, Half
"Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778 - 1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark" by William Hayden English, vol. 2, (p. 789), 1896.

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

George Rogers Clark
Men, Opportunity, Victory
"The Buffalo Trace" by George R. Wilson, Indiana Historical Society Publications, volume 15, number 2, Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, (pp. 189), 1946.

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