"I'm gonna tell you something, Flaca, and I want you to listen tight. May sound like I'm talkin' about me. But I'm not. I'm talkin' about you. As a matter of fact, I'm talkin' about all people everywhere. When I come down here to Texas, I was lookin' for somethin'. I didn't know what. Seems like you added up my life and I spent it all either stompin' other men or, in some cases, gettin' stomped. Had me some money and had me some medals. But none of it seemed a lifetime worth of the pain of the mother that bore me. It was like I was empty. Well, I'm not empty anymore. That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong, or to say a word for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat."

"Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. 'Republic' is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. 'Republic' is one of those words."

"Frankie Avalon - Smitty"

"Veda Ann Borg - Blind Nell Robertson"

"Jester Hairston - Jethro"

"Carlos Arruza - Lt. Reyes"

"Ken Curtis - Capt. Almeron Dickinson"

"Don't you talk anymore, Claude? We used to talk, you and me, when we were kids. What happened? Things have kind of gone to hell haven't they? And you're still at it - stealing and killing and running."

"Julie London - Billie Ellis"

"Gary Cooper - Link Jones"

"[to Link] I put a piece of work into you. Every last idea that shot through your head was mine. I remember every bloody minute of it."

"Mr. Jones is lookin' to stretch his legs although I don't think he want them any longer than they are. [laughs]"

"There's a point where you either grow up and become a human being or you rot, like that bunch."

"Lassoo's a ghost town, and that's what you are, Dock! You've outlived your kind and outlived your time, and I'm comin' to get you!"

"Chief Tahachee - Pio"

"J. Williams - Alcutt"

"Robert J. Wilke - Ponch"

"John Dehner - Claude"

"Royal Dano - Trout"

"Jack Lord - Coaley"

"Arthur O'Connell - Sam Beasley"

"Lee J. Cobb - Dock Tobin"

"Faye Dunaway - Louise Pendrake"

"What's an Indian boy who don't speak a word of English doing out in the middle of nowhere, sixty miles from the nearest town?"

"Dynamite? It's like wine, it only gets better with age."

"I've seen this place reduce grown men to tears. It ain't no place for a woman."

"I told you to watch your step! You're not in a classroom! Out here one little mistake will get you killed."

"Could you promise me something? No matter how bad it gets, no matter what happens... don't let them eat my dog."

"Rule number one, Briggs: never take your eyes off the suspect."