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Mr. Burgess, Mr. Warren.
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- Mr. Weatherby, Mr. Warren.
- Glad to know you.
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Be seated.
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I tell you, the South had a better Army.
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We rode better, we fought better,
we were led by better men.
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And so we were defeated.
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Defeat. Fellow once said, "What is defeat?"
You go home.
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- War is terrible.
- Not always, Miss Ballard.
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When a man's dead, he don't worry
about the color of his uniform.
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I still say
the war could have been prevented.
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- How?
- By peaceful means.
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Negotiation, compromise, reason.
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If you stay out in the West, you're going to
find you can't negotiate with a bowie knife...
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or reason with a six-shooter.
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I seen Gettysburg.
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Two years later,
you could still smell the blood.
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And I saw Richmond
after they burned it to the ground.
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I've seen enough
and I've had enough of killing.
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I'm sick of violence and force.
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I learned one thing:
bullets are very democratic.
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They kill good men as well as bad.
I'd like to try the other way.
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Try it. But I fought your war, too,
and I saw a world die: my world.
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And what destroyed it? Force, Mr. Warren.
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The war is over.
We can't go on thinking about it forever.
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I've forgotten it.
I'm interested only in the future...
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because that's where we're going to spend
the rest of our lives.
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I spent five years
fighting somebody else's quarrel.
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Now I don't quarrel with anyone.
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By not carrying a gun?
Is that how you do it?
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By staying in my own back yard...
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which, in this case, happens to be
1,200 acres of good California land.
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Twelve hundred acres.
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You can stand on the front porch
and see straight ahead for three days.
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The ocean's the west boundary
and the river's the east boundary.
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For me, that's the whole world.
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And what happens on the other side
of the river is no concern of yours?
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That's right.