- Paladin: [First lines] Costigan was right in his cause, wrong in his ways. I fought him and I killed him. Now I'm going to make you get off his land. And I hope I won't have to kill you.
- Paladin: Costigan, what is it you want to see? More blood on the moon?
- Costigan - Cattleman: Have you ever owned anything? I don't mean easy come, easy go, gambling, stealing, gunfighting, but something you've earned with work, and the years of your life, fought to hold the roots in so that if they're pulled up, you die. So when a man steals something like that from you, he steals part of your life. Thia is Wyoming, no cows spring up out of the ground here, no mavericks to start a herd from. They're all Texas cows, bought and paid for with five years of my life. And another five just living through the war. And another to bring them up here. And almost another ten, holding and making 'em live, making 'em grow. What do you want me to do ? Give them away? Or let them be taken away?
- Paladin: I worked for him.
- Amos Clemenceau: When did you get sick to your stomach, Mister? Before or after the hanging?
- Paladin: Before.
- Amos Clemenceau: Might as well stay for supper. Before you're on your way.
- Paladin: It's not your land.
- Amos Clemenceau: Land belongs to God.
- Paladin: And Costigan.
- Amos Clemenceau: Then let Costigan take it.
- Paladin: Mr Clemenceau, so what's worse than dying?
- Amos Clemenceau: Worse? Run, failing, seeing your wife go hungry again, seeing a little girl being born hungry, live hungry, die hungry, that's worse.