- Jim McLain: Lot of wonderful things written into our constitution that were meant for honest decent citizens. I resent the fact that it can be used and abused by the very people who want to destroy it.
- Poke: I've had a belly full of this East Texas cotton-chopping jerk.
- Jim McLain: Did you ever chop cotton?
- Poke: Nah, I'm from the country club set. That chopping cotton's for white trash and niggers!
- [McLain punches Poke and a fight ensues]
- Madge: Say, how tall are you?
- Jim McLain: Six-four.
- Madge: Hmm, seventy-six inches... that's a lotta man.