- Walt Dunne: See them all over the West. Children, families too big, not enough to eat, fathers dead, mother worn beyond their strength. Don't leave much for the children. Thus for the girls, gun for the boys. I dunno, Mister, they ask to be born, did they?
- Paladin: [to the drummer] I think you've got Fred Horn's kind of courage. It doesn't take much to be a backshooter!