- Trooper O'Dell: My old Pappy always used to say, "Once you get the call, don't be a back slider."
- Bart Maverick: Your what?
- Trooper O'Dell: My Pappy.
- Bart Maverick: That's what I thought you said.
- Acando: What has happened to Maverick?
- Catherine Percy: Why do you ask?
- Acando: He was the only one of the three that had wisdom.
- Catherine Percy: And I thought you were a good judge of people. He was working for my husband.
- Acando: Then he was working for peace.
- Catherine Percy: The court-martial board has convicted him of treason. He hangs tomorrow morning.
- Acando: You could save him... with a word.
- Catherine Percy: I will *not* save him.
- Acando: I wonder which one of us is the savage.
- [last lines]
- Sgt. Schumacher: Corporal Heaven... he's assigned to your detail.
- Bart Maverick: [laughing] Corporal.
- Albert Heaven: Alright, Maverick! Fall in next to O'Dell!
- Bart Maverick: Ah, Albert, leave me...
- Albert Heaven: I said, fall in, and keep your mouth shut till I tell you to speak or I'll have you standing here for the next twenty-four hours. 'Ten-shun! 'Bout face! Forward march!
- Bart Maverick: Somebody, oughta change that boy's name.
- Bart Maverick: Why, I don't know the first thing about bein' a soldier and I sure don't wanna learn.
- [first lines]
- Bart Maverick: [narrating] Mostly, you don't catch me hanging around army posts. I don't have a hankering for the military life. But, this fort was different. There was always a big poker game going on in the Sutler's store. Trappers in from the wilds would take a hand, and some of those Calvary boys in blue were pretty sharp card players. You know the kind. When payday came around, they'd wind up with most of the money in the barracks. So, whenever I was in the neighborhood, I'd drop in and try to even things up a little.
- Benedict: Maverick, it's been said you love money more than anything else.
- Bart Maverick: It's been said right.