"It shall be life"

[Josey Wales approaches a troop of Comanche warriors that live in the valley he's occupied]

Josey Wales: You be Ten Bears?

Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears.

Josey Wales: I'm Josey Wales.

Ten Bears: I have heard. You are the grey rider. You would not make peace with the Bluecoats. You may go in peace.

Josey Wales: I reckon not. I got no place else to go.

Ten Bears: Then you will die.

Josey Wales: I came here to die with you. Or to live with you...Dyin's easy for men like you and me. It's the livin' that's the hard part. When everything you care about's been butchered or raped.

[Josey Wales proposes that they share the valley and what is has to offer]

Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have.

Josey Wales: 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.

Ten Bears: It's sad that governments are chiefed 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 Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life.


Ten Bears: So will it be.

Josey Wales: I reckon so.

-The Outlaw Josey Wales