- Captain Andy Anderson: This is Anderson, Linc. I think I'd better send another man down there with you.
- Lincoln Vail: Well, I'd like to handle it alone if it's all right with you, Andy.
- Captain Andy Anderson: I don't want to lose you, Linc. You're the only man in the patrol that doesn't go nuts out from isolation out there at Lost River Station
- Lincoln Vail: Andy, if you spent 11 months in solitary north of the Yalu, you wouldn't call it isolation - you'd call it a rest cure.
- Lincoln Vail: I thought the North Koreans were tough. I think you swampies down here got 'em beat.
- Angie: Sometimes don't you wonder if the 'Glades was the right place to come for peace and quiet?
- Lincoln Vail: Angie, on its peaceful days, it's like a front row seat for the creation of the world.
- Angie: Well, it's Paradise, all right, if it weren't for the wildlife - not just our native gator hunters and moonshiners, but runaway Cubans, maybe even a New York gangster on the lam. Only a Yankee'd be fool enough to try and enforce the law in the Everglades.
- Lincoln Vail: Well, before I enforce it, I'm going to try to *suggest* it.
- Angie: To a diehard squatter like Luther Jacks? Well, I got enough work to do around here without having to worry about a Yankee dreamer with an unmentionable name like "Lincoln".
- Lincoln Vail: I'll change it to "Stonewall". Anything to please so lovely a flower of the Old South. ma'am.
- Angie: Okay, okay. We'll can that syrup and sell it at the trading post.
- Josie: He will shoot you dead. You know, I'll miss you, Mr. Linc, even if you're a Yankee from Illinois, I'll miss you as sure as I can spit.
- Lincoln Vail: Thank you, Josie, but don't hold the funeral until I get back.
- Memory Jacks: It was me that lit the fire! It wasn't worth livin' in anyhow. Oh, I'm sick of livin' like a swamp rat. Ever since Ma died it's been nothin' but you drinkin' and shootin' up people. Well, I'm sick of it! Little Sandy here needs medicine and Jim Bob's gettin' meaner and gettin' ready to gun people just like you.
- Memory Jacks: Pa, when I put that comb and looked at that little reading book and put those shoes on Sandy, it just told me somethin' plain. I'm through livin' filthy, stupid, like the wild hogs. Times are changin' like Mr. Linc says. Time we went in and learned to act like people.