Hec Ramsey (TV Series)

The Mystery of Chalk Hill (1973)

Richard Boone: Hec Ramsey

Quotes 

• Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : [to Ramsey, who is reading a book]  Well, Mr. Ramsey, what have you learned from Dr. Freud?

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : The paranoids are out to get me.

• Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : [In response to Chief Stamp's accusing Ramsey of police brutality]  Them that haven't got the guts to resist arrest haven't got the grit to commit a crime.

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : I see. So now you not only arrest the party, you provide the punishment as well?

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Well, there's extenuating circumstances, like necessary force.

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : And you seem to be evoking it with increasing eventuality. A warning, Mr. Ramsey, on the record: I will no longer tolerate your rampant tendencies toward mayhem!

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Well, you show me some civilized felons, and then I'm gonna show you some civilized law enforcement.

• Nora Muldoon : Are you a bachelor, Hec?

  Hec Ramsey : Well, that's what I set out to be, but it's gittin' harder all the time.

• Constable Arne Tornquist : You seen this latest issue of The Gazette?

  Chief Oliver Stamp : No.

  Constable Arne Tornquist : The editor claims that there are six prisoners in this jail and every one of them has a serious injury incurred during apprehension.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : Mr. Ramsey, is this true?

  Hec Ramsey : That is a base canard. It is a bald-headed, barefooted lie.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : You mean they're not hurt.

  Hec Ramsey : I mean there're seven of 'em.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : Is Number Seven all in one piece?

  Hec Ramsey : Except for his teeth.

• Hec Ramsey : You git somethin' masculine out of a fella called Sachet and I'll bathe in the hog trough.

• Hec Ramsey : When a boy gets his growth, he goes where his mind and his muscle and his heart and his conscience takes him.

• Doc Kirby : Why would anyone design an inaccurate gun?

  Hec Ramsey : You go meat-hunting with a shotgun or a rifle. Any handgun in this world, any gun that will fit in your pocket or your purse, is designed for the expressed purpose of killing another human being.

• Hec Ramsey : You're jist the first woman I ever met that was man enough to admit that she was wrong.

• Chief Oliver Stamp : I'm apologizing.

  Hec Ramsey : I'm accepting. Just, we don't see eye-to-eye about law enforcement. Kid misbehaves, you tell him to go stand in the corner.

  Chief Oliver Stamp : What's that got to do with anything?

  Hec Ramsey : Well, what if tha kid pulls a gun and tells you to go to Hell?