"Weather conditions have improved tremendously over the mainland, so you won't have any trouble at all seeing the target. Of course, we mustn't forget, that means that they won't have any trouble at all seeing you."

"Hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms."

"John Chandler - first bounty hunter"

"John Russell - "Bloody Bill" Anderson"

"Doug McGrath - Lige"

"Len Lesser - Abe"

"Kyle Eastwood uncredited, - Josey's son"

"Richard Farnsworth uncredited, - one of the Comancheros"

"John Quade - Comanchero Leader"

"Will Sampson - Ten Bears"

"Matt Clark - Kelly"

"Royal Dano - Ten Spot"

"Sheb Wooley - Travis Cobb"

"Joyce Jameson - Rose"

"Woodrow Parfrey - Carpetbagger"

"Geraldine Keams - Little Moonlight"

"Sam Bottoms as Jamie"

"Paula Trueman - Grandma Sarah"

"[to bounty hunter] Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."

"John Vernon - Fletcher"

"Bill McKinney - Terrill"

"Sondra Locke - Laura Lee"

"Chief Dan George - Lone Watie"

"Clint Eastwood - Josey Wales"

"You know, she thinks I'm some kind of a Cherokee chief."

"All I have is a piece of hard rock candy. But it's not for eating. It's just for looking through."

"I didn't surrender neither. But they took my horse and made him surrender ... they have him pullin' a wagon up in Kansas, I'll bet."

"We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union."

"I wore this frock coat in Washington, before the war. We wore them because we belonged to the five civilized tribes. We dressed ourselves up like Abraham Lincoln. We only got to see the Secretary of the Interior, and he said: "Boy! You boys sure look civilized.!" he congratulated us and gave us medals for looking so civilized. We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, "endeavor to persevere!" They stood us in a line: John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me — I am Lone Watie. They took our pictures. And the newspapers said, "Indians vow to endeavor to persevere.""

"[to Lige] You pull his teeth, he's harmless as a heel hound. Always wanted to face down one of these pistol fighters they raise all the fuss about. Only way to handle them."

"[to Abe, his fellow bounty hunter] He's mean as a rattler, and twice as fast with them pistols."

"We'll do without molasses. Anything from Missouri has a taint about it."

"Sometimes, trouble just follows a man."

"Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle 'Dixie'?"

"[while aiming his scoped rifle at a ferry rope] Well, Mr. Carpetbagger we've got something in this territory called the Missouri boat ride."

"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

"There ain't no forgettin'."

"Maybe the attack against the Ant Hill was impossible. Perhaps it was an error of judgment on our part. On the other hand, if your men had been a little more daring, you might have taken it. Who knows? Why should we have to bear more criticism and failure than we have to?...These executions will be a perfect tonic for the entire division. There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die...You see, Colonel, troops are like children. Just as a child wants his father to be firm, troops crave discipline. And one way to maintain discipline is to shoot a man now and then."

"Timothy Carey - Pvt. Maurice Ferol"

"Kem Dibbs - Pvt. Lejeune"

"Bert Freed - Sgt. Boulanger"

"Emile Meyer - Father Dupree"

"Peter Capell - Narrator of opening sequence/Judge of court-martial"

"Christiane Kubrick - German singer"

"Joe Turkel - Pvt. Pierre Arnaud"

"Richard Anderson - Maj. Saint-Auban"

"Wayne Morris - Lt. Roget"

"George Macready - Gen. Paul Mireau"