"What has McLintock got that makes it different from all other westerns? It's got a tender love story! It's got good clean fun! It's got a warm story of family devotion!"

"Never such a tender love story! Never such a savage showdown! Never such restless natives!"

"He likes his whiskey hard... His women soft... And his west all to himself!"

"If these settlers get burned out, there'll be a lot of hollerin' that this country is too wild to be a state. We'll go on bein' a territory some more, with a lot of political appointees runnin' it according to what they learned in some college where they think cows are somethin' you milk and Indians are somethin' in front of a cigar store."

"I came close to killing you a couple of times when I was younger. Saddens me I didn't."

"Cuthbert H. Humphrey, Governor of our territory, is a cull. Do you know what a cull is, ma'am? A cull is a specimen that is so worthless that you have to cut him out of the herd. Now if all the people in the world were put in one herd, Cuthbert is the one I would throw a rope at."

"I've got a touch of hangover, bureaucrat. Don't push me."

"This is probably the first marriage I've ever seen that started out with a spanking!"

"Becky! Come here. Somethin' I ought to tell you. Guess now's as good a time as any. You're going to have every young buck west of the Missouri around here tryin' to marry you - mostly because you're a handsome filly, but partly because I own everything in this country from here to there. They'll think you're going to inherit it. Well, you're not. I'm going to leave most of it to, well, to the nation really, for a park where no lumbermen'll cut down all the trees for houses with leaky roofs. Nobody'll kill all the beaver for hats for dudes nor murder the buffalo for robes. What I'm going to give you is a 500 cow spread on the Upper Green River. Now that may not seem like much, but it's more than we had, your mother and I. Some folks are gonna say I'm doin' all this so I can sit up in the hereafter and look down on a park named after me, or that I was disappointed in you - didn't want you to get all that money. But the real reason, Becky, is because I love you, and I want you and some young man to have what I had, because all the gold in the United States Treasury and all the harp music in heaven can't equal what happens between a man and a woman with all that growin' together. I can't explain it any better than that."

"Carlo Pisacane — Holly Spring Station Master"

"John Phillip Law — Bill Meceita"

"Lee Van Cleef — Ryan"

"When you've waited fifteen years to find a man... it's a shame you can only kill him once!"

"This is revenge... And there's nothing sweet about it!"

"Paula Trueman - Grandma Sarah"

"John Vernon - Fletcher"

"Bill McKinney - Terrill"

"Sondra Locke - Laura Lee"