Adam Cartwright

"Well Pa, the way I look at it, if a man expects to get ahead in this world , he's got to use his brains instead of his back."

"Well, what have you two been up to, outside of plotting against me?"

"Um...my education, ahh...just interfered with my thinking for a minute."

"C'mon Pa. Of course I know I'm human. I make mistakes but not this time"

"You can't have two different points of view in the same house. Pa, it just won't work and that's all there is to it."