Louis L'Amour Quotes
violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
L'Amour, Louis. The Iron Marshal. Bantam Books, 1979, p. 143.
What is particularly interesting about this passage is that a Middle Eastern contemporary historian and commentator compared circumstances to political events with the Umayyads and the Abbisids to those in Persia and Rome. Chosroes (Khosrow) was a Persian King who had his brothers murdered, and Caesar was viewed as a tyrant. Even then, the history of politics, in one country influenced events and attitudes in others,
Referring to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms:
the new nation of South Sudan The President was under indictment as a war criminal by the international Court in the Hague. He had difficulty understanding any other language that of the gun.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short-story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work "frontier stories"); however, he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".
