- Thomas Marsh: [after Brandon, Sr. leaves to go west to pursue building a transcontinental railroad] Poor dreamer - he's chasing a rainbow!
- Lincoln: Yes, Tom - and some day men like you will be laying rails along that rainbow.
- intertitle: [Referring to Brandon] With his own hands he has driven the last spike - the buckle in the girdle of a continent.
- Judge Haller: [as Jesson and Brandon are about to have a showdown in the saloon] This town's a law an' order town - an' this fight's goin' to be conducted legal!
- intertitle: [Before narrative begins] Accurate and faithful in every particular of fact and atmosphere is this pictorial history of the building of the first American transcontinental railroad.
- Lincoln: [about the older Brandon] He feels the momentum of a great nation pushing westward - he sees the inevitable.
- Judge Haller: Boys, this bar of justice and likker will still function when we get to Cheyenne - Let 'er go!
- Miriam Marsh: You belong on this side, Davy.
- Dave Brandon: When they drive the golden spike, we'll belong to both sides - and to each other.
- Cpl. Casey: [to Brandon] Put your pride in your pocket, me lad! Tell the sweet, young lady the truth.
- intertitle: [referring to Brandon] The roar of his father's dream - 'his' dream - for he too is helping to build it.
- Cpl. Casey: Hurry up with yer crawlin' shovelers - me min are stumblin' over thim.
- Sgt. Slattery: Is *that* so! Listen - I slowed thim up a-purpose, so's we wouldn't be leavin' ye behind.
- Lincoln: We must not let problems of war blind us to greater problems of the peace to come. Or we will have fought in vain.
- intertitle: In 1865 Lincoln is assassinated, but his work went on. Later in the year come the Union Pacific crews - chiefly ex-soldiers of the North and South working peacefully side by side.
- Thomas Marsh: [first lines of dialogue] Having another of your day-dreams of rails across the continent, Brandon?
- David Brandon Sr: Yes, Tom - dreaming of rails that'll reclaim that wilderness out there clean to California. And with the help of God, I'll lend a hand to blaze the trail.
- intertitle: There is no white labour. It is necessary to bring in Chinese for the task.
- Cpl. Casey: Say, boss, there's no gettin' on with these furriners - I knocked five of thim down - an' even then they wouldn't work.
- Cpl. Casey: Twas me iligant Irish iloquence that di it - was it not?
- Sgt. Slattery: Yes, it was - - not!
- Tony - Italian Worker: All work - no pay - snow an' chilblains - buffalo meat mak' us seek - Indians shoot like hell - everything no good - we quit!
- intertitle: Ruby, the bright - but not too particular - star of the "Arabian Nights" dance tent.
- Judge Haller: The charge is attempted murder - but the gent threw whiskey in the face of a lady what's known to carry a gun - which ain't attempted murder at all, but deliberate suicide - case dismissed.
- intertitle: Ah Fat Wong, Plaintiff, vs. Maggie Rush, Defendant
- intertitle: The price of the town's last night of orgy.
- Judge Haller: I calc'late to keep law an' order in this here town, Wild Bill Hickok, if I have to shoot the hull population.
- Cpl. Casey: You sittin' in that cab! If we was movin' a pianner, you're the kind of a feller that would grab the stool.
- Miriam Marsh: You came to drink - and gamble - and - and dance. You came straight from me to this - this vile den!
- Tiny Woman Who Wants a Divorce: I want a deevorce!
- Judge Haller: Deevorce! Look here, didn't I marry you in North Platte not more'n ten hours ago?
- intertitle: Like a sweeping wind the Pawnee scouts rush to the rescue.
- intertitle: The wedding of the rails - celebrated with joyous exultation in the uniting of East and West. The afternoon of May 10, 1869. Note: *The locomotives shown in the scene are the original Jupiter and #116*.
- Dave Brandon: I'm off to the Central Pacific which needs men.
- Cpl. Casey: Shure an' ye'll have to take me along - ye'll be worth nawthing without me.
- intertitle: As the hammer falls on golden spike, the wire carries to every telegraph office the message D-O-N-E !
- intertitle: [final scene of these words written below a bust of Lincoln] His Truth is marching on