Major Marquis Warren Quotes

When the handbill says “dead or alive”, the rest of us just shoot you in the back from up on top a perch somewhere, and bring you in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth, The Hangman, catches you, you don’t die by a bullet in the back. When The Hangman catches you, you hang.

You believe in Jesus now, huh, b**ch? Well good, ’cause you about to meet him!

That’s the thing about war Mannix, people die.

Everybody keep your mouth shut and do like I say. You open your mouth; you gonna get a bullet. You move a little sudden, a little strange; you gonna get a bullet. Not a warning, not a question; a bullet.

Bringing desperate men in alive, is a good way to get yourself dead.

The only time black folks are safe, is when white folks is disarmed.

We gonna die, white boy. We ain’t got no say in that. But there’s one thing left we do have a say in. And that’s how we kill this bitich.

Them peckawoods left their homes and families, and come up to this snowy mountain,lookin’ for me and fortune. None of them found fortune. The ones you ain’t ever heard of no more, they found me.

My bounties never hang, cause I never bring ’em in alive.