Fair Blows the Wind Quotes

“It is a living. It is enough. I am free. The nights are long and quiet, the mornings cool and bright, I live with the sun, the moon, and the stars. The air is fresh where I am, and there is no one to hurry me or to demand this or that of me.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“...we hold this land only for a time. Whether we win it in peace or war, we hold it only in trust for other peoples, and other generations.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“I have education and once I had position. Now I am nobody, but I am happy.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“For our age-old enemies await us always, just beyond our thin walls. Hunger, thirst, and cold lie waiting there, and forever among us are those who would loot, rape, and maim rather than behave as civilized men.

If we sit secure this hour, this day, it is because the thin walls of the law stand between us and evil. A jolt of the earth, a revolution, an invasion or even a violent upset in our own government can reduce all to chaos, leaving civilized man naked and exposed.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“All copyrights are held by the Stationers’ Company, and they pay a pittance. They control all and there is nowhere else to go. A man ekes out an existence only if he can do other things as well. A dramatist does scarcely better, for he must sell his copyright to the theatrical companies, and if he gets as much as six pounds he is fortunate. No, my friend, it is no way to earn a living.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“If we sit secure this hour, this day, it is because the thin walls of the law stand between us and evil. A jolt of the earth, a revolution, an invasion or even a violent upset in our own government can reduce all to chaos, leaving civilized man naked and exposed.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind

“How often it is that a whim may alter the course of our existences! How often the simple decision whether to go right or left when one leaves a doorway can change so much! A man may turn to the right and walk straightaway into all manner of evil, and to the left, all manner of good.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind: A Novel

“howling wind that set the flames a-roaring on the hearth. In the wide open door stood a huge man wrapped in a sheepskin cloak, the leather side outside, and a great fur cap now sodden with rain. He had a red beard and bushy brows of red, and there was a great scar on his cheekbone partly hidden by the beard.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind: A Novel

“yet”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind: A Novel

“trade.”
― Louis L'Amour, Fair Blows the Wind: A Novel