| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0b1ebf0 | Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier. | love frontier | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| ec35109 | Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. | freedom social-contract state-of-nature the-west frontier libertarianism solidarity mercy liberty individualism liberalism justice | Cormac McCarthy | |
| abfb3b8 | I dont know what happens to country. | loss borders frontier | Cormac McCarthy | |
| ca44666 | There's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere. It's about being connected, access, gateways, like a whispering game where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning. | frontier | Colum McCann | |
| a477750 | Being on the frontier, as I've said, required doing rather than imagining: clearing land, building shelter, obtaining food supplies. Frontiers test ideologies like nothing else. There is no time for the theoretical. That, ultimately, is why America has not been friendly to communism, fascism, or other, more benign forms of utopianism. Idealized concepts have rarely taken firm root in America, and so intellectuals have had to look to Europe for inspiration. People here are too busy making money - an extension, of course, of the frontier ethos, with its emphasis on practical initiative. | united-states-of-america frontier | Robert D. Kaplan |