Category: Good Quotes
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Showdown at Yellow Butte
The gun came up and Fessenden seemed to lean forward with it. Kedrick triggered. The shot nailed Fessenden through the chest again. The big man took a fast step back, then another. His gun slipped from his hand, and he grabbed a glass from the bar. “Gimme a drink!” he demanded. Blood bubbled at his…
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Hondo
For one swift, stark moment he saw the Apache, saw the dark, slim body, saw the rifle muzzle not forty yards away, and knew…(read more)
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Only Small Sins Are Needed
You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wicked-ness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter howsmall the sins are provided that…
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Down the Long Hills
Folks couldn’t live together unless they had respect for one another, and for the rights of other men. When you get right down to it, all law is based on respect for each other’s rights.
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Down the Long Hills
“You’re young, so when you sit in company, you sit quiet and listen. They say little pitchers have big ears, and they should have. That’s the way to learn. You’ll hear a lot of foolishness, but you’ll hear wisdom, too, and you must learn not to despise any man. Even a fool can teach you…
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Last of the Breed
“There are good men everywhere,” she said, recalling another. “Yes,” Zhikarev agreed. “I only wish they had louder voices.
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Last of the Breed
If Russia would put the KGB to working on farms and doing something productive, tear down the Berlin Wall, and build more good hotels, we Americans would be all over your country spending money, making friends, seeing the beauties of Russia, and making ridiculous all that both countries are spending on munitions.
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Last of the Breed
All his life had been a preparation for dying, but dying as a warrior would die. Yet now he would not die, for dying would give them victory. He would live, he would escape, he would flaunt it in their faces. He would show them what a man could do.
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Elton Trueblood Quotes
We must never forget that Hitler was able to crush the mere moralists, but he was not able to crush thousands of men who thought the first commandment was really first.
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