- Barney Wagner: You just serve the papers.
- Clay McCord: And if I refuse?
- Barney Wagner: Oh, you ain't gonna do that. There's those who might misunderstand your motives.
- Clay McCord: What do you mean?
- Barney Wagner: Maybe you didn't catch the name - Barney Wagner. Oh, you musta been a kid about eleven when you heard it last.
- Clay McCord: Barney Wagner...
- Barney Wagner: That's right, McCord. I'm the man who put the final bullet in your father.
- Alva Wagner: Somehow it doesn't seem fair taking the land from people who didn't do anyhting but forget some old papers.
- Barney Wagner: That's business, Alva. That's the way money is made. And once a man's made it you watch how quick people forget how it was made. They only remember that he's got it.
- Barney Wagner: You didn't seem to complain when I bought you a new dress or a fancy hat or some French perfume. You didn't care where the money came from then.
- Alva Wagner: Barney, if you think I married you for things like that, I might as well get out of here right now!
- Barney Wagner: Honey, I didn't mean...
- Alva Wagner: Just remember that the one thing I really want you won't give me and that's for you to be able to walk out a door without looking around to see if somebody's going to shoot first. Oh, Barney, there's one dress I don't want - a black one!
- Marshal Simon Fry: Wagner's shrewd. He's got you in a box. You gonna have to serve 'em. The chief marshal can't expect his deputy to do any different... but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
- Clay McCord: What you drivin' at?
- Marshal Simon Fry: Aw, there's a whole mess of laws, statutes, regulations that people don't bother to learn or remember, like spittin' on a sidewalk, failin' to tether a horse or muddyin' a drinking trough, or offerin' a bribe. Any one of 'em could have a body thrown in jail until a circuit judge shows up. That could take a looong time.
- Barney Wagner: Honey, you sound like you don't trust me to do the right thing.
- Alva Wagner: I'm beginning to think you don't know how.
- Jose: By the way, you speak with the judge?
- Clay McCord: The law's a wonderful thing. It has as many bends as the Snake River.
- Clay McCord: If you're hired hands have any ideas, you better tell 'em to get rid of 'em.
- Barney Wagner: You can't outshoot all of 'em, Clay.
- Clay McCord: Well, if you won't take it for boastin', I'm faster than my father ever was.
- [Clay proceeds to shoot all three henchmen out of their saddles]
- [last lines]
- Marshal Simon Fry: [narrating] Law and justice ain't always the same thing. A peace officer's job is to uphold the law, but even more, it's to see justice is done... and that deputy of mine was just the man to help me get it done.