A Quote by Henry Wells

Westward, ever westward.

Henry Wells

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Henry Wells
American - Businessman
December 12, 1805 - December 10, 1878

Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.

Chauncey Depew

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

John Quincy Adams

I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.

Ayushmann Khurrana

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Our great national drama was a westward expansion that conquered a native population rather than coexisting with it.

Ross Douthat

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Henry David Thoreau

Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.

Josiah Strong

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm very American in the sense of being an explorer. America is filled with people who are interested in exploring landscapes, either external or internal. A westward nation of explorers.

Joyce Carol Oates

But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.

Rachel Carson

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sarah Zettel

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

George Berkeley

There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

Tommy Lee Jones

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