White Hope

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or hope:

    “The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I hope we shall give them a thorough drubbing this summer, and then change our tomahawk into a golden chain of friendship.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)