John Wayne Quotes

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

“You're short on ears and long on mouth.”

“I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”

“A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.”

“I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.”

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were
selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”

“With a lot of blacks, there's quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”

“Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. ”

“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

“I eat as much as I ever did, I drink more than I should, and my sex life is none of your goddamned business.”

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ”

“Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.”

“My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.”

“All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.”

“We’re burnin’ daylight.”

“It's getting to be ri-goddamn-diculous.”

“If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.”

“Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.”

“COWBOYS, just like the word says.”

“If I had known this, I would've put that patch on thirty-five years earlier.”

“We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!”

“In fact, I don't even call myself an actor. I'm a reactor. I listen to what to what the other guys says and I react to it.”