- Ned Roden: Who are you?
- Marshal Len Merrick: My name's Merrick. I'm United States Marshal here.
- Ned Roden: You're new in the territory.
- Marshal Len Merrick: The law isn't.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: Put this down. 'Whereas, I hearby bequeath my homestead to my daughter... '
- Billy Shear: You don't need 'whereas' and the 'hereby.'
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: Well, I'll leave that up to you. But just be sure there's enough whereases in there to make any law angler set up and take notice, huh?
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [to Merrick] Just as long as you're conscious, I'm a goner, so I aim to make you unconscious.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [In the midst of singing "Down in the Valley"] I never thought I'd be singin' my way to my own trial.
- Marshal Len Merrick: [Painfully listening to him continue to sing] Mister, they're trying you for the wrong crime.
- Sam Weaver: When he buried his boy, know what he put on the marker? "Hear a father's heart lies buried." A man with no heart makes a bad enemy.
- Billy Shear: If she's as good cooking as she's at ambushing, what have we got to lose?
- Marshal Len Merrick: Only our lives.
- Ann Keith: Justice! That's what you promised, ain't it? I told you what he'd get. Cattleman's justice! A trial in the dead of night so you could hang him quicker. Are you satisfied?
- Judge Marlowe: Young woman, I can understand your anxiety for your father. But justice does not vary with the time of day. Your father can receive as fair a trial in darkness as in daylight.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [Last lines] You know, it's-it's frightening what can happen to a man! A law officer in the family! It's downright terrifyin'!
- Marshal Len Merrick: [Seeing Dan Roden go for the gun of a sleeping deputy, he cocks his pistol and speaks authoritatively] He's asleep, but I'm not!
- Marshal Len Merrick: Sorry about your son, Roden.
- Ned Roden: He was worth any five men on the range. He was what I always wanted... golden in the sun... guns seemed made for his fingers. There wasn't a horse he couldn't ride or a man whose heart he couldn't win... and now he's dead - his heart smashed by a rustlers bullet.
- Marshal Len Merrick: [Realizing the shooter he's struggling with is a pretty woman] Hey-hey! Kickin' won't get you anywhere - unless you're a mule.
- [Noticing her physical attractiveness]
- Marshal Len Merrick: I'm glad to see you're not.
- Marshal Len Merrick: [Trying to treat her injuries under her pant leg with some difficulty] Sorry, but it'd be a lot easier if you wore dresses.
- Ann Keith: Dresses slow yuh down!
- Marshal Len Merrick: Depends on where yuh goin'.
- Marshal Len Merrick: We'll head through the desert to Santa Loma.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [taken aback] The desert? Why, this is August, man. No self-respecting rattler would try to cross the desert in this heat.
- Deputy Lou Gray: You'd never make Santa Loma that'a way!
- Marshal Len Merrick: We got no choice. The other way, Roden'll be waitin'. I don't aim to have us all killed.
- Deputy Lou Gray: Well, let Roden have the old man. He ain't meant nothin' but trouble to us.
- Ann Keith: Sure, give him up, jug head. Save your own hide!
- Marshal Len Merrick: We're leaving now across the desert. Look, I know it's tougher, but they won't figure on us taking the long way around. And even if they do, we'll have a night's ride ahead of them. Pack up, Billy.
- Marshal Len Merrick: You didn't need to cut yourself like that.
- Ann Keith: [taken aback] Cut myself?
- Marshal Len Merrick: [indicating the spur on his boot] I wear a single rowel. You cut yourself with a Mexican spur.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: [dictating his last will & testament to Deputy Billy Shear] Now, this here Bowie knife I give to...
- Marshal Len Merrick: [intercepting him and taking the knife] You give it to me. For the time being.
- Timothy 'Pop' Keith: All right, put it down. I give it to Marshall Merrick agin my better feelings.
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