Lines really said in history!

[J.R. Logan]

Lines really said in history

“For three hundred dollars I’d cut anybody in two with a sowed-off shogun.”  Mannen Clements

“I don’t believe the bullet was ever molded that will kill me.”  Dallas Stoudenmire

“Because I didn’t want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.”  Clay Allison, January 7, 1874

“ Look out!”  Clay Allison, December 21, 1876

“You are a cowardly son-of-a-bitch!  I will blow the top of your head off.”  Hugh Anderson, August 20, 1871

“Andrew, you called me a liar not long ago.  Do you still say it?” Ira Aten, November, 1891

“I still say it.  But I have to say it unarmed.”  Andrew McClelland

“Arm yourself.  I’ll wait.” Ira Aten

“One, two, three,” Elfego Baca, December 2, 1884

“I’m Cullen Baker.  You looking for me?”  Cullen Montgomery Baker, October, 1868

“Not much, Mary Ann!”  Buckshot Roberts, April 4, 1878

“Me, I want to get killed in one hell-firing minute of action.”  Charles Bryant, 1891

“Give up.  We have got you this time.”  November 1, 1891

“What’s the matter, boys?” Nathan D. Champion, November 1, 1891

“The fighting has now commenced, go to fighting or get away.”  Wyatt Earp, October 26, 1881

“See that fellow yonder?  I am going to take a shot at him.”  George Washington Coe, April 30, 1878

“Hands up then and come out.”  Thalis T. Cook, September 28, 1896

“I understand you have a white affidavit for me.  Is that so?”  Cad Pierce, November 1873


“If you want a fight, here is the place for it-as good as any!”  Ed Crawford, November 1873

“Doc, we will have this out.” Jim Manning February 14, 1882

“If you pour our beer out, you’re going to get hurt.”  William M. Doolin, 1891 Kansas

“Go to hell!” William M. Doolin, September 1, 1893

“Take your hands off my horse!”  Frank McLaury, October 26, 1881

“You sons of bitches, you’ve been looking for a fight and now you can have it!” Wyatt Earp, October 26, 1881

“Throw up your hands!”  Virgil Earp, October 26, 1881

“I’ll die first,”  George W. Flatt, July 7, 1879

“Anyone but a damn Irishman would have more sense than to try to wash anything in that water.”  Pat Garrett, November 1876

“By God, even that damned Pat Garrett can’t take me!”  Mariano Leiva, December 1880

“Pat, someone is coming.”

“That’s them.”

“Come out and get some, be a little sociable.”  Pat Garrett December 23, 1880

“Run, Dick, run! Here come the Rangers!”  January, 1877

“No, I came here to die, not to make a speech.”  Crawford Goldsby, March 17, 1896

“Boys, I move we don’t go!  Quick, make a run for it!”  Jesse Lee Hall, February 9, 1885

“Dee, we will surrender if you won’t kill us.” 

“Frank Canton, goddamn you, I’ve got it in for you.” Bill Dunn, November 6, 1896

“Hands up then and come out.”  Thalis Cook, September 28, 1896

“I came to settle with you abut those lies I’ve heard you told about my killing John Beckwith.”  John Jones, September 1879

“What sort of settlement do you want, John?”  Bob Olinger, September 1879

“Here he comes!” February 28, 1900
“Throw up your hands, We’re officers.”  Chris Madsen, November 29, 1892

“I knew who you were, but I didn’t know where you were from.”  Chris Madsen, 1893

“I have come over a thousand miles to settle this.  I know you are heeled now fight!” Bat Masterson, April 16, 1881

“I want my money back.” David Barnes, May 10, 1885

“That man has some friends and he can’t be robbed in such a manner.”  John Barnes, May 10, 1885

“What have you got to do with this?” Dave H. Mather, May 10, 1885

“Here, that won’t do,”  Pat Sughrue, May 10, 1885

“I’ll come as soon as I get my hat,”  Chick Bowen, January 19, 1912

“I’ll shoot you in the legs, and then you’ll come, you son-of-a-bitch!”  Bob Meldrum, January 19, 1912

“Don’t you call me a son-of-a-bitch, Bob.” Chick Bowen, January 19, 1912

“Get your guns, boys!  They’re robbing the bank!” J. S. Allen, September 7, 1876

“I have lost my notch stick on Mexicans that I killed out on the border,  James B. Miller

“Get your guns, you damn Texas sons-of-bitches, and fight!”  August 15, 1873

“Why, that’s Bitter Creek Newcomb!”  Del Simmons, September 1, 1893

“You want some too?”  Baz Outlaw, April 5, 1894

“Don’t you dare drive that cow beyond my gate.  I’ll kill you if you do.”  Josiah G. Scurlock, 1868

“There is one of the sons of bitches, Let’s throw it into him.  Luke L. Short,  April 30, 1883

“Burt, there is another son-of-a-bitch.  Shoot him!”  John Horton Slaughter, June 7, 1888

“Don’t do it, Whig, or I will kill you.”  John A. Spradley, 1884

“I will wash my hands in old Bill Sutton’s blood.”  Jim Taylor, April 1, 1873

“Look out, there is going to be a shooting.” December 25, 1876

“Reload it and throw it back, so I can kill that other damned marshal!”  William Towerly, December 1887

“Hello, boys,”  Jesse Tyler, May 16, 1900

“Zip, I’ve got a warrant for you.” Andrew Balfour, July 4, 1894

“Go get your guns, We’ll fight it out.”  Warren Earp, July 6 1900

[Dutch Limbach]

This is one of my favorite quotes:

"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." --Benjamin Franklin

[O.T. Buchannan]

" I will go get this man, or bring back his boots!"  Bass Reeves

"I vowed to never surrender at the muzzle of a gun."  John Wesley Hardin

"This is my fight, and I'll kill the first man that fires a gun."  John Wesley Hardin

"...as he was straightening up I pulled my pistol and fired.  The ball struck him between the eyes and he fell over, a dead robber."  John Wesley Hardin

"I waylaid them, as I had no mercy on men whom I knew only wanted to get my body to torture and kill."  John Wesley Hardin

"The crowd ran, and I stood there and cursed them loud and long as cowardly devils."  John Wesley Hardin

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[Dutch Limbach]

"Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!" -- Davy Crockett

"I was a young boy in the school house when the cry came, Injuns! I jumped to my rifle and threw down my spelling book, and thar it lies." -- Kit Carson

"Give me 80 men and I'll ride through the whole Sioux Nation." - Captain William Fetterman

"The Seventh can handle anything it meets." – General George A. Custer while declining reinforcements for the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

"He is universally despised by all the officers of his regiment  excepting his relatives and one or two sycophants."-– a member of General George Armstrong Custer’s command.

There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. --George Armstrong Custer

Hurray, boys! We've got them. We'll finish them up and then go home to our station. --George Armstrong Custer

"I want results when I fight." - Frank James

My life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. -- Jesse James

"We are rough men and used to rough ways."  – Bob Younger following the 1876 Northfield, Minnesota raid

''I'm not afraid to die like a man fighting, but I would not like to be killed like a dog unarmed.''-- Billy the Kid in a letter to Governor Lew Wallace, March 1879.

"I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.-- Butch Cassidy

"Well, if there aint' going to be any rules, let's get the fight started." -- Butch Cassidy

"Tombstone has two dance halls, a dozen gambling places and more than 20 saloons. Still, there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town." -- Judge Wells Spicer in 1881

A Tombstone lawyer was pleading his case to a jury in Judge Wells Spicer's court when a burro beneath the window started braying loudly. Lawyer Marcus A. Smith arose and said, "If it please the court, I object to the two attorneys speaking at the same time."

"Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed."-- Judge Roy Bean

When asked if his ancestors came over on the Mayflower, Will Rogers replied, "No, but my relatives were here to meet them."

"The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight." - Will Rogers

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." — General George S. Patton

"History doesn't repeat itself,  but it does rhyme."-- Mark Twain

[Skeeter Lewis]

This is a great line.

A certain Jack Enright had a beef with an editor called Henry Bernard. Enright pushed his way into Bernard's office and shouted, "You have been trying to make me suck the hind teat and I am going to make you suck the bung hole."
Bernard drew a gun and shot him dead. July 2 1884

[Shotgun Franklin]

"Is this thing safe?"--- Black Jack Ketchum looking at the scaffolding where he would soon be hanged.

"Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more" -- Rector Dean Walter Richardson at the burial service of Nellie Clemente a Soiled Dove in San Antonio

"Drugged And Debauched"-- the headlines of the Light, July 18, 1888 San Antonio,Texas in a story about a 15 year old girl lured into prositution

"a terrible event in my life'--Sept 8, 1861. The description of the hanging of Bob Augustine by Charles Herff

[Guns Garrett]

The following exchange took place between outlaw Grattan Dalton and Condon Bank cashier Charles Ball, in Coffeyville, Kansas, October 5th, 1982:

"Open that safe, damn you." -GD
"I can't. It's set on a time lock, set to open at 9:30." - CB
"What time is it now?" - GD
"9:20" - CB   (correct time was really 9:40; the safe had actually been opened at 8:00)
"We can wait". - GD

Then, approximately 20 minutes later:

"It's no use" - Bob Dalton, Oct. 5th, 1892 (last words)

[Frenchie]

"Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do." -- An uncharacteristic burst of temper from Ulysses S. Grant when being reminded repeatedly of the powers of Robert E. Lee

While in Scotland during his around the world journey, Grant was offered a "demonstration" of a new game called "Golf", which he had never heard of. Unfortunately the person chosen to demonstrate the game for Grant was a terrible novice golfer. After placing the ball on the tee, the man proceeded to attempt to hit the ball numerous times, sending up huge divots in the process. After observing this for a while, Grant said, "The game appears to be great exercise. But tell me, what is the purpose of the little white ball?"