Fellow delegates, like all of you I've listened in awe and admiration to the magnificent oratory of the honorable Major Cassius St...arbuckle, the cattlemen's mouthpiece, the lowing herds. But seriously, under the spell of his eloquence I could see once again the vast herd of buffalo and savage redskin roaming our beautiful territory with no law to trample them except the law of survival, the law of the tomahawk and the bow and arrow. But then with the westward march of our nation came the pioneer and the buffalo hunter, the adventurous and the bold. And the boldest of these were the cattlemen who seized the wide-open range for their own personal domain, and their law was the law of the hired gun. Now, now today have come the railroads and the people, hard- working citizens, the homesteader, the shopkeeper, the builder of cities. We need roads to join those cities, dams to store up the waters of the Picket Wire, and we need statehood to protect the rights of every man and woman, however humble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You can forget what I said about buying the gun. You're a tenderfoot. Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picket Wire-...-next to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and... the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom--the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in ... at City Hall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I married a miner myself. I had ten children. I've got seven now; thirty-one grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. And I'm ...happy to say not a one's ever crossed a picket line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The blue sun in his red cockade Walked the United States today,... Taller than any eye could see, Older than any man could be. He caught the flags and the picket-lines Of people, round the auto-works....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its wo...rks of genius, of erudition, and of science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »