1923 Quotes (Season 1)

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]

We take what life gives us. It’s all we can do.

Men kill with bullets or a noose, which is to say men kill quick. Your fight is with me now. I kill much slower.[to Banner]

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

Why danger gives men such pleasure I’ll never understand.

When the sun hits your face, I am your shadow. When it finds my back, you are mine. I go where you go. Even if it’s the death of me.[to Spencer]

War’s not living. If insanity was a thing you could touch, that’s what war is. A letter is a window out of that hell for a minute. But it’s a double-edged sword. Missing home and dreaming has killed more soldiers. You want to eat a bullet in battle, you start wishing for a letter.[to Alexandra]

Hope is the surrender of authority to your fate, and trusting it to the whims of the wind. My family does not hope. We fight for what we believe until we have it, or we are destroyed by the pursuit.

Your vacation’s over, I’m afraid.[Spencer Dutton]But the adventure is just beginning.[Alexandra Dutton]

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]

Violence has always haunted this family. It followed us from the Scottish Highlands and the slums of Dublin. It ravaged us upon the coffin ships of Ireland. Stranded us on the beaches of New Jersey, devoured us upon the battlefields of Shiloh and Antietam. And it followed us here, lurking beneath the pines and in the rivers. And where it doesn’t follow, we hunt it down. We seek it.