Do you have a problem with the Russian people? I don’t. I don’t have a problem with the Iranian people, Iraqi people, Syrian people, Libyan people, Chinese people, or Ukrainian people. The government currently ruling the American people does seem to have a problem with these countries and many others. I will always support my country, but I do not support the government ruling the country at this time. It is chiefed by double tongues. People can live together without butchering each other. It’s governments that butcher people.
Josey: You be Ten Bears?
Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears.
Josey: (spits tobacco) I’m Josey Wales.
Ten Bears: I have heard. You’re the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace. Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go.
Ten Bears: Then you will die.
Josey: I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain’t so hard for men like you and me, it’s living that’s hard; when all you ever cared about has been butchered or raped. Governments don’t live together, people live together. With governments you don’t always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well I’ve come here to give you either one, or get either one from you. I came here like this so you’ll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here, the wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. Now, we’ll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, he can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey. The sign of the Comanche, that will be on our lodge. That’s my word of life.
Ten Bears: And your word of death?
Josey: It’s here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I’m here for either one.
Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.
Josey: That’s true. I ain’t promising you nothing extra. I’m just giving you life and you’re giving me life. And I’m saying that men can live together without butchering one another.
Ten Bears: It’s sad that governments are chiefed by the double-tongues. There is iron in your word of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron, it must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life… or death. It shall be life. (he takes his knife and cuts his hand. Josey does the same and they grasp each others hand.) So shall it be.
Love that movie . I have most of Clint Eastwood movies here at home.This is off topic., Where is AWD ?Anything wrong ?Why is he not posting anything ?
I didn’t see this movie until a few years ago, and I’m 71 now. When I taught Vocational Horticulture thirty-some years ago, 1982-1987, a number of my students –ages 22 to 55– would come to my office and talk about their life, hopes, and fears.
I was astounded at how timorous and apprehensive they were: to me this was a generation of well-nourished youngsters w/every advantage, yet they were fearful for their future lives. I’d started my own business in 1963 at 19.8 yrs, by working 6 days a week for my employer and using my day of rest to get clients and start saving, so I wasn’t very gentle w/my ‘lost souls’.
I told these lost souls to stop worrying about dying early or even failing, just get out and do whatever it took to get ahead, day by day. “Stop worrying about accidents and death: dying will take care of itself, you have to focus on living!”
I didn’t surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender.