Denver Pyle: Amos Carruthers
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Quotes
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Amos Carruthers : [bringing his truant son Herbert to school] Ain't you goin' to give him a whoppin'?
Ransom Stoddard : No, he's too big.
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Amos Carruthers : [Stoddard raps table three times to call meeting to order, Amos Carruthers stands] I'd like to nominate the chairman,
[gestures towards the chair]
Amos Carruthers : Mr. Ransom Stoddard as delegate to the territorial convention!
[uproarious cheers of approval]
Ransom Stoddard : Wait a minute here now!
Tom Doniphon : And I second that nomination, not only because he knows the law but because he throws a good *punch*!
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Amos Carruthers : [in Ransom Stoddard's classroom after Tom Doniphon arrives, covered in trail dust, with news about Liberty Valence] You don't suppose they'll start anything down here, do ya?
Tom Doniphon : It's already started. Valence and his men crossed the river yesterday, killed a couple'a sodbusters. Old man Holliday and his son.
Dutton Peabody : You know that for a fact, Tom?
Tom Doniphon : [indignant] I do. They tried to bushwhack me, *unfortunately* for for one of 'em.
[Peabody turns to leave]
Tom Doniphon : Ya gonna put that in your newspaper too?
Dutton Peabody : Well it's news, and I'm a newspaperman.
Tom Doniphon : Print that and he'll kill ya, sure as hell!
