John Wayne Quotes

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.

Slap some bacon on a biscuit and let's go! We're burnin' daylight!

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid

My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'.

I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

If you can't be thankful for what you have, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

You're short on ears and long on mouth.

I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people ... I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from [the Native Americans] ... Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.