Missouri Quotes

• The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

  Buffalo Bill

  Men, Slave, Granted

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Gun, Arrows

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• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  Barney Ross

  War, Bombs, Tokyo

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• The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

  George Catlin

  Character, Rivers, Water

  George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

  Eleanor Clift

  Strong, Zero, War

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• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Andrew Taylor Still

  Children, War, Doctors

  Andrew Taylor Still (1897). “Autobiography of Andrew T. Still: With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy, Together with an Account of the Founding of the American School of Osteopathy”

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• But we did conclude that Ray had actually killed Dr. King pursuant to his theory that he was going to be able to get hold of that money. He had learned of this offer through his ties in the Missouri State Penitentiary.

  Louis Stokes

  Kings, Ties, Rays

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• I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

  Cole Younger

  Life, Robbing, States

  Cole Younger (2014). “The Story of Cole Younger”, p.19, Minnesota Historical Society Press

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• I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

  Steve Cropper

  Country, Raised, Western

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• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  Ted Shackelford

  College, Men, Degrees

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• We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Summer, Black, Mountain

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1842). “History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri: Thence Across the Rockey Mountains, and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.126

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• The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the Continent.

  George Catlin

  Tribes, Finest, Continents

  George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.23

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

  Dan Simmons

  Teaching, School, Years

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• For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

  Mel Carnahan

  Sex, Past, Years

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• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world

  Ike Skelton

  Country, World, Regulation

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• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Cole Younger

  Long, People, Peculiar

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• As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

  Christopher Bond

  Years, Vermont, Kind

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• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sunset, Done, Losing

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.

  James MacArthur

  Agriculture, Colorado, Skis

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• Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

  Francis Parkman

  Morning, Kansas, Mouths

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks

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• Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Change, Heart, Past

  Address on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, delivered 16 October 1854, Peoria, Illinois

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• I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

  Harry S. Truman

  Song, Stars, Giving

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Towns, Small Town

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.339, Penguin

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• Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude. I am therefore utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territory, and heartily wish that every Constitutional measure may be adopted for the preservation of it.

  John Adams

  Evil, Slavery, Territory

  Letter to William Tudor, Jr., founders.archives.gov. November 20, 1819.

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