Sam Houston Movie Quotes & Lines – 10 Classics (+ Audio)

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1 Indisposed? By God, if you mean drunk, you say drunk, sir! -He's drunk, sir.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

2 Now, I've been given command of the armies of Texas. But the fly in the buttermilk is there ain't no armies in Texas! A few good friends and some willing men.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

3 I would trust Jim Bowie with my life. More than that, I would trust him with the lives of my family. And more than that, I would trust him with the life of Texas.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

4 I've never been able to like you, but you are another one of the very few men I would trust with the life of Texas. -For that, thank you, sir. -And it may very well be that that life rests in your hands now.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

5 I hope they remember. I hope Texas remembers.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

6 General, I assume you're ordering me to... Dammit! I am ordering you to command! How and what you do is your problem!

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

7 How does it happen you're still alive? You had white hair when I was a little boy and now we look like we're about the same age. -Yes, sir, but I've been a temperate and God-fearing man all my life, sir.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

8 I'm gonna have to knock some of those men into an army and to do that I need time.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

9 You gonna have to keep Santa Anna off the back of my neck until I can get in shape to fight him.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)

10 Of course Jim Bowie's drunk. He took this town from General Cos. He fought a battle. And now he's drunk. Seems kinda natural to me.

Richard Boone in The Alamo (1960)