Bonanza (TV Series)

The Savage (1960)

Lorne Greene: Ben Cartwright

Quotes 

• Ben Cartwright : Now, you can't leave us shorthanded just to go to talk to a man who's probably a crackpot!

  Adam Cartwright : Crackpot?

  Ben Cartwright : Yes, crackpot!

  Adam Cartwright : A long time ago a man fooled around with a thing he called a cotton gin. His name was Whitney,a nd they called him a crackpot, too. And they said the same thing about a man called Watt, until his steam engine made history! And before that, there was a man who thought the world was round.

  Ben Cartwright : You missed one.

  Adam Cartwright : Who?

  Ben Cartwright : In between those last two gentlemen you mentioned, there was another man who rode around looking for windmills, and his name was Don Quixote, and he WAS a crackpot!

• Ben Cartwright : I don't have anything against education as long as it doesn't interfere with your thinking!