- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: [wistfully] When we lost my only son to cholera, I was away working. Do you know where I was and what I was doing?
- Cullen Bohannan: No.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: Neither do I.
- [first lines]
- Cullen Bohannan: [holding the Bible under her hand] You do swear by almighty God, the searcher of all hearts, that the evidence you give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as you shall answer to God on the last great day?
- Ruth: [kisses the Bible]
- Judge Webber: In the matter of the United States versus Ruth Cole, the defendant stands accused of unlawfully, feloniously, and of malice aforethought shooting into Sidney Snow two mortal wounds of which he died, contrary to the law, peace, and dignity of the Wyoming territory. Having heard these charges, what say you?
- Ruth: Guilty.
- John Campbell: Burn this city down, you'll have no friends left but the ashes.
- Louise Ellison: Exactly as much as Ruth Cole.
- John Campbell: You'll cast her as some Saint?
- Louise Ellison: I'm still deciding on the devil.
- Ruth: Would you do anything different if you could go back?
- Cullen Bohannan: I would be a better husband, a better father.
- Ruth: I would be more patient with Ezra.
- Cullen Bohannan: [chuckles] They don't get more patient than you. Boy didn't make it easy on you, setting fires, rustling horses, kicking frogs.
- Ruth: What I would give for a church full of frogs.
- Cullen Bohannan: Hanged by the neck until dead. Did you hear him in there?
- Ruth: Pardons are for cowards, like Sidney Snow.
- Louise Ellison: I've come for comment on the kangaroo court you authorized on your arrival and your acquisition of McGinnes' casino thereafter.
- John Campbell: Ancient history, miss Ellison.
- Louise Ellison: I prefer to call it context.
- [repeated line]
- Hang Man: You don't got to worry. I'll be there.
- John Campbell: I thought we shared a vision for what this city could be.
- Louise Ellison: The only vision that I have is a poor girl swinging from a rope.
- John Campbell: What befell miss Cole was a tragedy, but printing this won't bring her back.
- Louise Ellison: The governor controls a great many things. The press is not one of them.
- [last lines]
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: Send for 300 workers from Omaha to lay track, and two trainloads of lumber from Chicago. Oh, and throw up a wire to general Grant. Tell him we'll summit before month's end.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: Well, what is it, Bohannon?
- Cullen Bohannan: I quit.