Jacob Dutton Quotes

Someday, you’re gonna run this place, and for your son to someday run it too, you got to understand what this ranch’s greatest enemy is. It’s not wolves, or drought, or blizzards, or Texas Fever. It’s other men. Man will choose to take what you’ve built rather than try and build it for himself. Every civilization in this world is built on top of the one they conquered. You go to Rome or Jerusalem or Paris, France and it’s cities stacked on top of towns stacked on top of villages on top of one man’s house built on top of one man’s cave. Wish it wasn’t so, but it is. Your enemies have got to be so terrified that their fear is greater than their greed.[to Jack]

You give a man enough time, he’ll figure his way out of anything.

You attack my family. It’s gonna be the last thing you ever do.[to Banner]

When the first baby comes, you don’t want to be too picky with your math and a calendar.[to Bob]

Only thing that happens fast at a bank is deposits and robberies.

Only a banker would consider a mortgage a luxury.

It’s only lives we can’t afford to lose.[to Cara]

I have what my family fought for. You want to fight me for it, too?[Banner Creighton: You have the land, you have the lease, you have everything.]

Government is man’s way of trying to control our behavior. But it can’t be controlled, it’s what we are. Sooner or later, the kind of people who would enrich themselves at your expense, will use the government to do it. [to Jack]