- Lee Hackett: You got to learn to respect the gun: knowing when to shoot is just as important as knowing how.
- Lee Hackett: Times don't change in this country where you breed a man soft. Without any spirit, a man's like a horse: if he don't buck the first time you put a saddle on him he ain't worth having - you know that!
- Deputy Sheriff Will Motely: Lee, you and I grew up in our own times - Ed's got to learn to grow up in his, and times have changed!
- Cook: Yes, sir. Feels like rain before mornin'.
- Ed Hackett: Doesn't look that way to me.
- Cook: Well, you better take my advice. Get your ponchos out of the wagon right now.
- Ed Hackett: Not a cloud in the sky...
- Lee Hackett: One thing I've learned, Ed - never to argue with a woman, a mule or a cook.
- Deputy Sheriff Will Motely: You're still trying to live in the past, and your boy is trying to do the same!