The Big Trees (1952)

Edgar Buchanan: Walter 'Yukon' Burns

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• Elder Bixby : Violence is not our creed.

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : Yeah, I know. And I believe in turning the other cheek... but you just run out of cheeks. It's time to start growing some religious muscle.

• Walter 'Yukon' Burns : [Referring to the giant sequioas]  Biggest, boldest things in the whole world!

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : [to Jim]  Make you feel kinda small?

  Jim Fallon : Nope... big! I'm the one that's gonna knock 'em down!

• Walter 'Yukon' Burns : Widow Chadwick and these folks don't want these trees touched at any price.

  Jim Fallon : She's a widow huh?

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : What's the difference?

  Jim Fallon : When you grow up, I'll explain it to you.

• Alicia Chadwick : [Speaking about Jim]  Men have been known to change.

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : Oh, lady, even I have been given up by women reformers! The biggest mistake a woman can make is to pick the wrong man and try to make him right. Why don't you go off somewhere and have a good cry and forget him?

• Judge Crenshaw : Mr. Burns, I've heard you were an honest man and good with a gun. But I also heard you confessed to weakness for liquor, cards and women.

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : Not women, your Honor. They ain't for the weak.

• Jim Fallon : [Referring to Alicia]  What a gal!

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : You chigger-pickin' Don Juan! You just try pitchin' hay with her, and I'll shoot that lump you call a head right from under your cap!

• Gray : [to Jim]  None of these religious colonists ever bother to accumulate much cash.

  Alicia Chadwick : There's no need to.

  Walter 'Yukon' Burns : You see, Jim, these are wonderful folks. They'll give yuh everything they got. If they haven't got anything to give you, they'll say a prayer for you.

• Walter 'Yukon' Burns : You're gettin' in a rut, Jim. You'd better look out, and when a rut becomes deep enough, it becomes a grave... and you gotta couple partners likely to put you in it.