Frederick Jackson Turner Quotes & Sayings

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. — Frederick Jackson Turner

That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier. — 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

Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development. — Frederick Jackson Turner

America has been another name for opportunity. — Frederick Jackson Turner

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner

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