After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to l...ive in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As sure as time is--these mists will clear away. And the world--our world, will surely and unerringly see us as we are. Our only c...are need be the intrinsic worth of our contributions. If we represent the ignorance and poverty, the vice and destructiveness, the vagabondism and parasitism in the world's economy, no amount of philanthropy and benevolent sentiment can win for us esteem: and if we contribute a positive value in those things the world prizes, no amount of negrophobia can ultimately prevent its recognition. And our great "problem" after all is to be solved not by brooding over it, and orating about it, but by living into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure a...s it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I call it our collective inheritance of isolation. We inherit isolation in the bones of our lives. It is passed on to us as sure a...s the shape of our noses and the length of our legs. When we are young, we are taught to keep to ourselves for reasons we may not yet understand. As we grow up we become the "men who never cry" and the "women who never complain." We become another generation of people expected not to bother others with our problems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has po...wer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're not a big party, son. We're just a handful of people sent out to mark the trail and prepare the ground for those who are gon...na come after us. By next summer they'll be 100 families on the move. And they're countin' on us to have a crop ready for them. And if we don't, they'll starve, sure as shootin'. That's why we gotta reach that valley before the winter rains come. We been prayin' that we'd be showed the way. It might just be that you boys are the answer to our prayers.... Leading our wagons to the San Juan, to a valley that's been reserved for us by the Lord, been reserved for His people. So we can plow it and seed it and make it fruitful in His eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Martin Pawley: Do ya think maybe's there's a chance we still might find her? Ethan Edwards: Injun'll chase a thing 'til he th...inks he's chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there's such a thing as a critter that'll just keep comin' on. So we'll find 'em in the end. I promise ya. We'll find 'em, just as sure as the turnin' of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the felt of the morning the calico minded, sufficiently starched, insert papers, hit keys,... efficient and sure as their adding machines; yet they weep in the vault,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »