North to the Rails Quotes

“You can make laws against weapons but they will be observed only by those who don't intend to use them anyway. The lawless can always smuggle or steal or even make a gun. By refusing to wear a gun you allow the criminal to operate with impunity.”
― Louis L'Amour, North to the Rails

“The trees are aware, and the bushes. The birds and small animals are aware, and they listen, hesitant, suspecting. Awareness of danger is an element of their being. It is like their breathing, like the blood in their veins, and one who lives much with the wilderness become so aware, too... Half of woodcraft is attention, and all of survival.”
― Louis L'Amour, North to the Rails

“If they didn't accept him, the hell with them - he could go his own way.”
― Louis L'Amour, North to the Rails

“Them Injuns. Takin' the country off 'em. In good times it must've been a fine life they had, huntin' and fishin' or driftin' down the country on the trail of the buffalo. I ain't sure what we'll do to the country will be any better.”
― Louis L'Amour, North to the Rails

“He was realizing how cheap are the principles for which we do not have to fight, how easy it is to establish codes when all the while our freedom to talk had been fought and bled for by others.”
― Louis L'Amour, North to the Rails

“The thieves and the killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. but you hold to your way of thinkin' boy, if you've a mind to. It's your way, and you got a right to it.”
― Louis l'Amour, North to the Rails