Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

A Matter of Ethics (1957)

Roy Barcroft: Sheriff Swink

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• Sheriff Swink : [Discussing the likelihood of a lynch mob]  With the whole town on the other side, I don't figure we'll come out on top.

  Paladin : As the poet Browning wrote, 'Tis not what man does that exalts him, but what man would do. And we three would do right.

  Sheriff Swink : Maybe that poet don't mind failing, but me, when I put my hand to a thing I like to know it's gonna be done.

  Paladin : Man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? That's Browning again.

• Amy Bender : Who are you?

  Paladin : My name is Paladin.

  Sheriff Swink : Holgate hired him to see he ain't lynched.

  Amy Bender : So the gunfighters are all for law and order... if the price is right.

  Paladin : You don't buy law and order, Miss Bender - you fght for it.

  Max Bender : Once you have it, you don't throw it away.

  Paladin : Your father knows how hard law is to come by.

  Amy Bender : All this talk won't change the writing on my brother's tombstone.