Frederick Jackson Turner Quotes

"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development."
-Frederick Jackson Turner

"The West is now closed."
-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

"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

"If we can see (the damage), we can have some ideas about it for when we get home."
-Frederick Jackson Turner

"What we see, it's going to be hard, but we can take it."
-Frederick Jackson Turner