Quotes from Louis L'Amour

in order to have peace both sides must want it equally. One side cannot make peace; they can only surrender.

from a blow. His yellow eyes clung to von Hallstatt. He desperately

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

Hutch looked at him

A lady, but a bright one—she was intelligent, with a good measure of common sense, and the two are not always one.

He is a Stinkard.

The buccaroo dropped his stolid bull eyes, but raised them again and grinned. Well, I'm not particular about goin' this week, boss. That's not my name, said Drake, but it's what I am.

when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them.

Uncommon men are everywhere. So much so that the common man has become uncommon.

many Europeans were enslaved in North Africa and elsewhere. Africans were enslaved here, and slavery of one kind or another existed over much of the world. Even the poor of Europe lived lives but little different from those of slaves, and in many cases they were worse off. Slaves were at least fed and clothed by their masters, and the poor of Europe had no such care.

The Dutchman was hard Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.

it runs in the blood of a man that he should care for womenfolk. It's a need in him, deep as motherhood to a woman, and it's a thing folks are likely to forget. A man with nobody to care for is as lonesome as a lost hound dog, and as useless. If he's to feel of any purpose to himself, he's got to feel he's needed, feel he stands between somebody and any trouble.

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight…fight. Talk about it after.

It is our custom that a Stinkard must always marry a Sun.

Naturally, he knew considerable about the Henry gang. The outlaws had been operating for several years, but only of late had exhibited a tendency to shoot first and talk later. This seemed to indicate that at least one of the gang had become a ruthless killer. All

street. He had gone to his room in the Rest and had taken a brief nap. From boyhood he had slept when there was opportunity and eaten when he found time. He had taken time to shave and change his shirt, thinking all the while. The

see perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout

Never did a tree fall that I did not feel a pang, and rightly so, for when the trees are gone, man will also be gone, for without them we cannot live. The very air we breathe comes from trees, and when they are gone, the air will thicken and men will die and our great towers of stone will fall away to rubble and there will be only weeds, and then grass to cover the unsightly mounds we leave behind.

It is not necessary to travel in order to write good stories; it is only necessary to see, to understand, to reveal.

feet on the deck over their heads and then the sound, far off but

Deadwood Gulch, a scattered, loosely knit series of communities, some of them hidden away in small hollows or scattered in other ravines connecting with this. White Rocks

deck. Gavagan rushed him, getting inside and hitting him with a right to the jaw.

Most of all we needed a fat bear, for of all things, fat is the hardest to come by in the wilderness.

in his younger years he had ridden the outlaw trail until time brought wisdom.