- Cherry: There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. Ever had a good... Swiss watch?
- Sims Reeves: Plantin' and readin', plantin' and readin'. Fill a man full o' lead, stick him in the ground an' then read words on him. Why, when you've killed a man, why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job?
- Mr. Melville: There's three times in a man's life when he has a right to yell at the moon: when he marries, when his children come, and... and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.
- Thomas Dunson: Cherry was right. You're soft, you should have let 'em kill me, 'cause I'm gonna kill you. I'll catch up with ya. I don't know when, but I'll catch up. Every time you turn around, expect to see me, 'cause one time you'll turn around and I'll be there. I'm gonna kill ya, Matt.
- [last lines]
- Thomas Dunson: When we get back to the ranch, I want you to change the brand. It'll be like this: The Red River D, and we'll add an M to it. You don't mind that, do you?
- Matt Garth: No.
- Thomas Dunson: You earned it.
- [Groot loses his false teeth to Quo in a poker game]
- Groot Nadine: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain't gonna take a man's only set of teeth, are you?
- Quo: Uh huh.
- Groot Nadine: Yeah, but I gotta use 'em for eating!
- Quo: Come grub, you get 'em.
- Groot Nadine: What are you gonna do with 'em.
- Quo: My name now Two Jaw Quo.
- Groot Nadine: Two Jaw Quo. That's what I get for playing with an injun.
- Cherry Valance: You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.
- Matt Garth: Could be. I wouldn't count on it.
- [Groot complains about the dust]
- Groot Nadine: Bet I ate ten pounds in the last sixteen days. Before this shenanigan is over, I'll probably eat enough land to incorporate me in the Union. The state of Groot.
- Thomas Dunson: [Giving Matt back his gun] Are you gonna use it?
- Matt, as a boy: [Walking away, intensely] No, but don't ever try to take it away from me again!
- Thomas Dunson: [Turning to Groot] He'll do.
- Thomas Dunson: I don't like quitters, especially when they're not good enough to finish what they start.
- Thomas Dunson: Who are you?
- Cherry Valance: Some call me one thing, some another.
- Thomas Dunson: What do they call you most?
- Cherry Valance: By my name. Cherry Valance.
- Matt, as a boy: How did you know when he was gonna draw?
- Thomas Dunson: By watching his eyes. Remember that.
- Matt, as a boy: I will.
- Thomas Dunson: Get a shovel and my Bible. I'll read over him.
- Thomas Dunson: Give me ten years, and I'll have that brand on the gates of the greatest ranch in Texas. The big house will be down by the river, and the corrals and the barns behind it. It'll be a good place to live in. Ten years and I'll have the Red River D on more cattle than you've looked at anywhere. I'll have that brand on enough beef to feed the whole country. Good beef for hungry people. Beef to make 'em strong, make 'em grow. But it takes work, and it takes sweat, and it takes time, lots of time. It takes years.
- Teeler Yancy: I shouldn't have run away. I should have stayed and put a bullet in you. I signed a pledge, sure, but you ain't the man I signed it with.
- Thomas Dunson: You finished?
- Teeler Yancy: Yeah, now you can get your Bible and read over us after you shoot us.
- Mr. Melville: You know that young man isn't going to use his gun don't you.
- Cherry: Yeah, but I haven't got any such notion.
- [Dunson plans to take Don Diego's land from him]
- Fernandez: Others have thought as you, señor. Others have tried.
- Thomas Dunson: And you've always been good enough to stop them?
- Fernandez: Amigo, it is my work.
- Thomas Dunson: Pretty unhealthy job.
- Matthew Garth: Buster, where's Cherry?
- Buster McGee: Cherry? Well he figured there was no need two of us coming. One was...
- Matthew Garth: Is she pretty?
- Buster McGee: Oh, Matt, do you remember that little filly I used to own?
- Matthew Garth: That's what I thought.
- Matt Garth: You'd have shot him between the eyes.
- Thomas Dunson: [Determinedly] Just as sure as you're standing there.
- Nadine Groot: [Matt has his back to Groot; Dunson is walking away to his right] Draw!
- [Matt turns completely around; he and Dunson both draw their guns]
- Nadine Groot: [to Dunson, cackling] He beat ya'! You knew'd it was comin' and he beat ya'!
- Thomas Dunson: [nodding and smiling] He beat me, alright.
- Thomas Dunson: Where did Don Diego get the land?
- Fernandez: Fernandez: "Oh, many years ago, by grant and patent inscribed by the kings of all the Spains.
- Thomas Dunson: You mean he took it away from whoever was here before, Indians, maybe.
- Fernandez: Maybe so.
- Nadine Groot: He didn't know about money, Matt. He never had none. He didn't know what to do.
- Matt Garth: You mean he just doesn't know who to fight.
- Nadine Groot: Yeah.
- Matt Garth: Well that's all right.
- Matt Garth: What's the best way to the stockyards?
- Mr. Melville: Straight through town.
- Matt Garth: They're not exactly house broken.
- [first title cards]
- Title crawl: Among the annals of the great state of Texas may be found the story of the first drive on the famous Chisholm Trail. A story of one of the great cattle herds of the world, of a man and a boy - Thomas Dunson and Matthew Garth, the story of the Red River D.
- Title crawl: [handwritten pages] Early Tales of Texas
- Title crawl: In the year 1851, Thomas Dunson accompaned by a friend, Nadine Groot, left St. Louis and joined a wagon train headed for California. Three weeks on the trail found them near the northern border of Texas. The land to the south looked good to...
- Matthew Garth: [Tess has been hit by an arrow during an Indian attack] I thought I told you to stay down.
- Tess Millay: You did.
- Matthew Garth: Then why didn't you?
- Tess Millay: 'Cos I got up.