The Pirate Quotes

“American values as self-reliance, rugged independence, a reverence for the land, a belief in the importance of hard work and self-sacrifice, and a willingness to fight when necessary for home, family, and community. And”
― Harold Schechter, The Pirate

“In our nation’s popular culture, country life in the 1800s has often been portrayed as an idyllic experience, one that cultivated such quintessentially American values as self-reliance, rugged independence, a reverence for the land, a belief in the importance of hard work and self-sacrifice, and a willingness to fight when necessary for home, family, and community.”
― Harold Schechter, The Pirate

“A freelance gangster and thief” (as Herbert Asbury describes him in his classic work The Gangs of New York), Hicks embarked on his criminal career at the age”
― Harold Schechter, The Pirate