Major Marquis Warren Quotes

“Got room for one more?”

“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 hang!”

“Anybody opens their mouth, gonna get a bullet. Anybody moves a little weird, little sudden, 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.”

“The Confederates took exception to my capacity for killing them. After I broke out of Wellenbeck, The South took my continued existence as a personal affront. So the cause put a reward on my head.”

“We still got that deal we talked about in the wagon? I help you protect your eight thousand, you help me protect my ten?”

“Let’s slow it down. Let’s slow it way down.”

“Now Minnie likes just about everybody, but she sure don’t like Mexicans. So when you tell me, Minnie went to North side to visit her mama? Well I find that highly unlikely, but okay. Maybe.”