Ringo Kid: You may need me and this Winchester, Curly. Saw a ranch house burnin' last night.
Ringo Kid: Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.
Henry, the Ringo Kid: Hold it.
Rocklin: Touch that gun, and I'll kill you.
Miss Elizabeth Martin: I saw you hit that poor man.
Rocklin: Yes, ma'am, just as hard as I could.
Sam Turner: All we want to know is what we rode here for.
Lane: What a gun rides anywhere for - money. The more of it the more chances you take.
Lane: If anyone tries to cross that river before we're out of sight - baptize 'em.
Lane: Gold has a way of bringing out the larceny in all of us, Mrs. Lowe.
Calhoun: Someone said this gold was already dug.
Lane: Keep digging.
Lane: I got a saddle that's older than you are, Mrs. Lowe.
Steve Aloysius Williams: Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Steve Aloysius Williams: Couldn't he have booked one protestant school along the way... for a breather?
Steve Aloysius Williams: How'd you do last season?
Father Malone: We showed up for every game.
Steve Aloysius Williams: I'd say that was raw courage.
Steve Aloysius Williams: You just gotta quit looking at me like I was George Washington and Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale all rolled into one.
Ned Pepper: What's your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogpaw?
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience. Which'll it be?
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!
Rooster Cogburn: Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!
Lawyer Goudy: I believe you testified that you backed away from old man Wharton?
Rooster Cogburn: Yes, sir.
Goudy: Which direction were you going?
Rooster Cogburn: Backward. I always go backward when I'm backin' away.
Lawyer Goudy: Was your revolver loaded and cocked?
Rooster Cogburn: Well, a gun that's unloaded and cocked ain't good for nothin'.
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