- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: Now these are orders, Mr. Hickok. Your patriotic duty demands that...
- Wild Bill Hickok: Sonny, there are duty scars all over my hide. From now on, folks are going to buy tickets just to look at 'em on a stage in a theater.
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: You mean you're going to be an actor?
- Wild Bill Hickok: Why not? You're what marshaling has petered down to.
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: But Marshal! This - this outlaw; if you don't arrest him, I shall!
- Wild Bill Hickok: Outlaw? Let me tell you something, son. This ain't Boston. We had a war down here and you'll find men in high offices who are thieves and cutthroats. You'll find others who are branded outlaws that are only fighting for what's their own. There's those known as bad men and those as are bad men. You better learn to tell the difference!
- Judge Harper: Dallas will be run by Federal law, not mob rule. We're not wild westerners. We're facing east and that's our future. We intend to build industries here, and culture. Dallas will raise people, not cows.
- Blayde Hollister: If your carpetbag riffraff doesn't choke it to death in her cradle.
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: I should have taken you straight to a doctor.
- Blayde Hollister: That's how you lost Bull Run, Yankee. Letting the enemy know your casualties.
- Wild Bill Hickok: Marshal, I'm glad I met you while you were still with us. You're going to be the shortest lived marshal on record.
- Brant Marlow: How's he gonna pay us the money he owes us if we keep topping off his herd?
- Will Marlow: I don't buy mortgages to get paid back. I buy them to foreclose.
- Tonia Robles: Do you know what Texas means? It's an Indian word for friends. It's a big land with room for everyone. And you could be a part of it in time.
- Blayde Hollister: [after hearing Weatherby's in love with Tonia] You ain't all Boston!
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: What do you mean by that?
- Blayde Hollister: Codfish ain't known for warm blood!
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: [after seeing the Marlow's office in town] Well, let's apprehend them!
- Blayde Hollister: Never launch an attack, Yankee, until yuh know the tactical situation.
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: You learned that at Vicksburg, Rebel?
- Blayde Hollister: Foreigner, I'll make it simple so you can understand.
- [Looking toward the saloon]
- Blayde Hollister: The best place to reconnoiter is where the barleycorn flows!
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: Well, I lose my bet!
- Blayde Hollister: What bet?
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: With myself. I thought that once you started serving your country, you...
- Blayde Hollister: I have no country!
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: And you call me foreigner!
- Blayde Hollister: You and all blue bellies!
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: We washed your gray and hung it out to dry!
- Blayde Hollister: Not mine, Yankee! If you wanna try, just send for that Gettysburg brother of yours!
- U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: He's still at Gettysburg.
- Don Felipe Robles: [to Will Marlow] Brave, strong - like lizards in dark corners, but your day of looting is almost done!