Col. G. Stonehill: I will pay a total of two hundred dollars to your father's estate when I have in my hand a letter absolving me of all liability from the beginning of the world to date!

Lawyer Goudy: Was your revolver loaded and cocked?

Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.

Rooster Cogburn: Well Mr. Rat, I have a writ here says you're to stop eating Chin Lee's cornmeal forthwith. Now it's a rat writ, writ for a rat, and this is lawful service of the same. See... doesn't pay any attention to me.

[Rooster shoots the rat]

Chen Lee: [Runs into the room] Outside is place for shooting!

Rooster Cogburn: I'm servin' some papers!