- Helen Ramírez: You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man.
- Martin Howe: You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.
- Martin Howe: People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.
- Helen Ramírez: I don't understand you. No matter what you say. If Kane was my man, I'd never leave him like this. I'd get a gun. I'd fight.
- Amy Fowler Kane: Why don't you?
- Helen Ramírez: He is not my man. He's yours.
- Helen Ramírez: What kind of woman are you? How can you leave him like this? Does the sound of guns frighten you that much?
- Amy Fowler Kane: I've heard guns. My father and my brother were killed by guns. They were on the right side but that didn't help them any when the shooting started. My brother was nineteen. I watched him die. That's when I became a Quaker. I don't care who's right or who's wrong. There's got to be some better way for people to live. Will knows how I feel about it.
- Judge Percy Mettrick: This is just a dirty little village in the middle of nowhere. Nothing that happens here is really important.
- Helen Ramírez: Kane will be a dead man in half an hour and nobody's gonna do anything about it. And when he dies, this town dies too. I can feel it. I am all alone in the world. I have to make a living. So I'm going someplace else. That's all.
- Hotel Clerk: You're Mrs. Kane, ain't you?
- Amy Fowler Kane: Yes.
- Hotel Clerk: You're leaving on the noon train?
- Amy Fowler Kane: Yes.
- Hotel Clerk: But your husband ain't?
- Amy Fowler Kane: No, why?
- Hotel Clerk: No reason, but it's mighty interesting. Now, me, I wouldn't leave this town at noon for all the tea in China. No, sir, it's going to be quite a sight to see!
- Dr. Mahin: The commandments say 'Thou shalt not kill,' but we hire men to go out and do it for us. The right and the wrong seem pretty clear here. But if you're asking me to tell my people to go out and kill and maybe get themselves killed, I'm sorry. I don't know what to say. I'm sorry.
- [when his Deputy Sheriff, his last hope of help, deserts him]
- Marshal Will Kane: Go on home to your kids, Herb.
- [to Deputy Harvey Pell]
- Joe: I knew you had guts but I never figured you for brains. It takes a pretty smart man to know when to back away.
- Helen Ramírez: [in Spanish] One year without seeing you.
- Marshal Will Kane: [in Spanish] Yes, I know.
- Helen Ramírez: [to Harvey] You're a good-looking boy: you have big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man. And do you know what? I don't think you are going to make it.
- [Johnny peers from the back room into Marshal Kane's office. He sees the marshal slumped over at his desk. Muffled sobs can be heard coming from Kane. The marshal hears Johnny come in and looks up at him]
- Marshal Will Kane: What do you want?
- Johnny: I found them, all but Mr. Henderson.
- Marshal Will Kane: I found him, thanks.
- Johnny: You're welcome. Marshal, let me fight with you. I ain't afraid.
- Marshal Will Kane: No.
- Johnny: Please, let me, Marshal!
- Marshal Will Kane: You're a kid! You're a baby!
- Johnny: I'm sixteen! I can handle a gun, too!
- Marshal Will Kane: You're fourteen. What do you wanna lie for?
- Johnny: I'm big for my age! Please, Marshal!
- Marshal Will Kane: Well, you're big for your age, but no, go on, get out of here.
- Deputy Sheriff Herb Baker: [to Marshal Will Kane] You cleaned this town up. You made it fit for women and kids to live in.
- Sam Fuller: [to his wife] Well, whaddya want? Do you want me to get killed? Do you want to be a widow, is that what you want?
- Marshal Will Kane: Stay at the hotel until it's over.
- Amy Fowler Kane: No, I won't be here when it's over. You're asking me to wait an hour to find out if I'm going to be a wife or a widow. I say it's too long to wait! I won't do it!
- Marshal Will Kane: Amy!
- Amy Fowler Kane: I mean it! If you won't go with me now, I'll be on that train when it leaves here.
- Marshal Will Kane: Johnny, why aren't you in church?
- Johnny: Why aren't you?
- [Will raises his hand as if to slap the boy for being disrespectful]
- Marshal Will Kane: Hey, Charlie. You can go home now.
- Charlie: [gangly and unkempt, lumbers out of the jail cell, hungover] Thanks, Marshal! Sure appreciate it, certainly do. You don't happen to know if the saloon's open?
- Marshal Will Kane: [shoves Charlie's jacket and bowler hat into his arms] I said, go home, Charlie.
- Charlie: Yes, sir.
- [Charlie darts out the jail door]
- [Ben Miller, Jim Pierce and Jack Colby passes by the saloon, as Gillis is attending to his customer. The clock on the wall shows 10:33 AM]
- Man: Man, it sure is hot.
- Barber: Hot? You call this hot?
- [the Barber looks up and notices the three horsemen offscreen. Walks to the front door]
- Barber: Well, I'll be...
- Man: What's the matter?
- Barber: I thought I saw Ben Miller!
- Man: Oh, he's down in Texas somewhere.
- Barber: I know...
- [the Barber walks back to tend to the customer]
- Barber: Looked like Pierce and Colby, too.
- [Doubtfully]
- Barber: No, it couldn't be, though.
- Deputy Sheriff Herb Baker: [when Herb volunteer's to be Will's first and only Deputy Sheriff for posse, Herb remarks to Will] I'll be back in ten minutes, loaded for bear.
- Judge Percy Mettrick: In the 5th century B.C., the citizens of Athens, having suffered grievously under a tyrant, managed to depose and banish him. However, when he returned some years later, with an army of mercenaries, those same citizens not only opened the gates for him, but stood by while he executed members of the League of Government. A similar thing happened about eight years ago in a town called Indian Falls. I escaped death only through the intercession of a lady of somewhat dubious reputation-and uh, the cost of a very handsome ring which once belonged to my mother. Unfortunately, I have no more rings.
- Judge Percy Mettrick: Don't you remember when he sat in that chair there, and said "You will never hang me. I'll be back. I'll kill you, Will Kane! I swear it! I'll kill you!"