Wednesday, November 24, 2021

The price of peace

     "Do you ever worry about how it will all turn out?"

    He shrugged. "A man does what he can, whatever the situation. There's only one way to fight: to win, and anybody who uses force without using it to the utmost is playing the fool.

    "I have been fighting all my life, yet I believe in peace. That doesn't do me one bit of good, though, against those men down there, because they have no idea of peace at all. The only thing they understand is violence. They would like for us to go down there and talk peace, but they would kill us all, and that would be an end of it. They would have peace over our dead bodies."

(from Callaghen, by Louis L'Amour)

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