Billy the Kid quotes
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“I wasn't the leader of any gang. I was for Billy all the time.”
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“Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.”
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“Advise persons never to engage in killing.”
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“I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.”
-- Billy the KidSource : "Las Vegas Gazette", December, 1880.
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“If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.”
-- Billy the Kid
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Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.70, The Overlook Press
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“A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.”
Source : Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.
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