Colonel Johnson, feeling that they were three whom he could trust, talked freely and unveiled a mind fitted for great affairs.
"I tell you three," he said, "that this will be one of the most important wars the world has known.

To London and Paris we seem lost in the woods out here, and perhaps at the courts they think little of us or they do not think at all, but the time must come when the New World will react upon the Old.

Consider what a country it is, with its lakes, its forests, its rivers, and its fertile lands, which extend beyond the reckoning of man.

The day will arrive when there will be a power here greater than either England or France.

Such a land cannot help but nourish it." He seemed to be much moved, and spoke a long time in the same vein, but his Indian wife never said a word.