The British Officer Duncan Heyward:
"And who empowered these provincials to pass judgment upon England's policies in her own colonies? To come and go without so much as a "by your leave!"
The lovely and fiercely independent Miss Cora Munro: "They do not live their lives 'by your leave.' ... They hack it out of the wilderness with their own two hands, burying their dead and their children along the way!"