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The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6) QUOTES

The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6) QUOTES

1 " People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

2 " violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

3 " Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

4 " You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

5 " Not that folks disliked me or that I ever went around being mean, but folks never did get close to me and it was most likely my fault. There was always something standoffish about me. I liked folks, but I liked the wild animals, the lonely trails, and the mountains better. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

6 " A man often creates an image of a girl in his mind but when it comes right down to it that’s the only place the girl exists. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

7 " ...people have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gambling, thieving, and robbing are covered over, folks will tolerate it longer than outright violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

8 " It was a sea of horns above the red, brown, brindle, and white-splashed backs of the steers. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

9 " No matter what happened here, what I was going to do was important. Maybe not for this town, but for men everywhere, for there must be right. Strength never made right, and it is an indecency when it is allowed to breed corruption. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

10 " I’ve nothing against a man being scared as long as he does what has to be done … being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

11 " There was nothing but prairie and sky, the sun by day and the stars by night, and the cattle moving westward. If I live to be a thousand years old I shall not forget the wonder and the beauty of those big longhorns, the sun glinting on their horns; most of them six or seven feet from tip to tip. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)

12 " Sometimes I wonder if anything is ever ended. The words a man speaks today live on in his thoughts or the memories of others, and the shot fired, the blow struck, the thing done today is like a stone tossed into a pool and the ripples keep widening out until they touch lives far from ours. "

― Louis L'Amour , The Daybreakers (The Sacketts, #6)