Clint Eastwood film dialogue

    by Anissimov: Clint Eastwood

    A line from the film's script , "Government don't live together, people live together" , is one of those pieces of dialogue that sticks with you. Whoever wrote it deserves serious recognition. Clint Eastwood also did a masterful job directing the movie.

    Transcript (en)

    And you will die. I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying ain't so hard for men like you and me. It's living, it's hard. When all you've ever cared about's been butchered or raped. Governments don't live together, people live together. Governments, you don't always get a fair word or a fair fight. Well, I've come here to give you either one. Or get either one from you. I came here like this so you'll know my word of death is true. And that my word of life is then true. The bear lives here. The wolf, the antelope, the Comanche. And so will we. And we'll only hunt what we need to live on, same as the Comanche does. And every spring, when the grass turns green and the Comanche moves north, you can rest here in peace, butcher some of our cattle and jerk beef for the journey The sign of the Comanche That will be on our lodge That my word of life And your word of death It's here in my pistols, there in your rifles. I'm here for either one. These things you say we will have. We already have. That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another. It's said that governments are achieved by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see. And so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of tin bearers carry the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life or death, that shall be life.