May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

On no further occasion present a flag or medal to an Indian.

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.

I was informed... that some... were dreaming and wished to return.

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

He was a man, he always performed his promises.

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn't take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.