Destry Rides Again Quote

Washington Dimsdale: How are you going to face anybody after what you took from Kent and Frenchy?
Tom Destry Jr.: Whadja expect me to do?
Washington Dimsdale: I expected you to be like your pa, comin' out blasting behind your shootin' irons! And what happened? You didn't have any? Why?
Tom Destry Jr.: I don't believe in 'em.
Washington Dimsdale: You did the last time I heard about ya. What in thunder has come over ya since then?
Tom Destry Jr.: Wash, my pa had these [guns]
Tom Destry Jr.: on that day in Tombstone when he got shot in the back. Didn't seem to do him much good, did they? That's one reason I don't believe in 'em.
Washington Dimsdale: What in tarnation do you believe in?
Tom Destry Jr.: Law and order.
Washington Dimsdale: Without guns?
Tom Destry Jr.: Without 'em!

Movie: Destry Rides Again

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