If thee wants to help, pick up a gun and fight, the same as I'm doing.

I'm not ready to do that.

What does thee aim to do, sit here and turn the other cheek?

That's what I aim to do, if I can.

Thee's got to face the fact, Jess, that war time calls for another kind of thinking.

Your thinkin' may have changed, Purdy, but you haven't. Last week you told my son he was goin' to hell for fightin'. This week you tell Jess that he's got to fight. Whatever's right for Purdy's got to be right for everybody else, huh? You're so hell-bent to fight, get goin'.

If it's peace thee wants, Jess Birdwell, thee won't get it chopping wood.

Friendly Persuasion