As we meet here at camp David we ask people of all faiths to pray with us that peace and justice may result from these deliberations.
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
He spoke of an Indian of his acquaintance who had been with some ministers to Ktaadn, and had told him how they conducted.... I judged from this account that their every camp was a camp-meeting, and they had mistaken their route,—they should have gone to Eastham; that they wanted an opportunity to preach somewhere more than to see Ktaadn. I read of another similar party that seemed to have spent their time there singing songs of Zion. I was glad that I did not go to that mountain with such slow coaches.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
In 1694 a law was passed “that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein.” But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State’s best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters’ camp itself.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)