# The Last of the Mohicans - Author: [James Fenimore Cooper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper.md) - Quotes: 16 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans ## Quotes > It is enough. Go, children of the Lenape, the anger of the Manitou is not done. Why should Tamenund stay? The pale faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red men has not yet come again. My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/it-is-enough.md) > “'Tis a strange calling!” muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, “to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/tis-a-strange.md) > When the white man dies, he thinks he is at peace; but the red-men know how to torture even the ghosts of their enemies. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/when-the-white.md) > It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed. Thus, in a new country, the woods and other objects, which in an old country would be maintained at great cost, are got rid of, simply with a view of “improving” as it is called. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/it-should-be-remembered.md) > History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/history-like-love.md) > It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/it-is-better.md) > Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/few-men-exhibit.md) > In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/in-short-the.md) > Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/your-young-white.md) > I have listened to all the sounds of the woods for thirty years, as a man will listen whose life and death depend on the quickness of his ears. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/i-have-listened.md) > Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson! [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/every-trail-has.md) > Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/should-we-distrust.md) > I am on the hill-top, and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/i-am-on-the.md) > Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in an attitude of friendship these two sturdy and intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/chingachgook-grasped-the.md) > It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict. But, emulating the patience and self-denial of the practiced native warriors, they learned to overcome every difficulty; and it would seem that, in time, there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it might claim exemption from the inroads of those who had pledged their blood to satiate their vengeance, or to uphold the cold and selfish policy of the distant monarchs of Europe. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/it-was-a-feature.md) > Is it justice to make evil and then punish for it? [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-fenimore-cooper/the-last-of-the-mohicans/is-it-justice.md)