Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas Quotes

“I am getting old now, and, as people usually do in their declining years, I spend many of my idle hours in meditation, thinking ever of the incidents of my past life; and, while thus reviewing my record as an officer and an honest citizen, I am rewarded with the only genuine happiness and satisfaction that man can experience while, with tottering footsteps, he is nearing the gateway through which he passes into the unknown world beyond.”
― William John L. Sullivan, Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas

“In other cases, however, they were men who had parents, but, while young and "smart," had disregarded the teachings of their elders, and, later on, had flagrantly violated the laws of their country, until they were finally locked within the four walls of a penitentiary, their liberty gone, and themselves disgraced and despised. They are left in dark, lonely cells to brood day and night over their unhappy fate, and to realize the folly of their former misbehavior.”
― William John L. Sullivan, Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas

“God pity the orphan children of this world, and may He bless the kind-hearted people who take them in and raise them to become useful men and women.”
― William John L. Sullivan, Twelve Years in the Saddle for Law and Order on the Frontiers of Texas