"I can't get over the impertinence of that young lieutenant. I'll make it warm for that shave-tail! I'll report him to Washington. We pay taxes to the government and what do we get? Not even protection from the Army! I don't know what the government is coming to. Instead of protecting businessmen, it pokes its nose into business. Hmm. Why, they're even talking now about having bank examiners. As if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks. Why Boone, I actually have a letter from a popinjay official saying they were going to inspect my books. I have a slogan that should be emblazoned on every newspaper in the country. 'America for Americans.' The government must not interfere with business! Reduce taxes! Our national debt is something shocking! Over one billion dollars a year! What this country needs is a businessman for President."

"Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week."

"Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from."

"Tom Tyler - Luke Plummer"

"Danger holds the reins as the devil cracks the whip! Desperate men! Frontier women! Rising above their pasts in a West corrupted by violence and gun-fire!"

"Edmond O'Brien - Dutton Peabody"

"Lee Marvin - Liberty Valance"

"Vera Miles - Hallie Stoddard"

"James Stewart - Ransom "Ranse" Stoddard"

"John Wayne - Tom Doniphon"

"Maj. Cassius Starbuckle: What kind of lawyer is he? He takes the law into his own hands. He has blood on his hands. The mark of Cain is on this man."

"Jason Tully: Nothing's too good for the man who shot Liberty Valance."

"The jail's only got one cell, and the lock's broke and I sleep in it."

"Liberty Valance defeated. D-E-F-E-E... T-E-D? The unsteady hand betrays. What's the matter, Mr. Peabody? Are you afraid? The answer is indub... yes. [Finding his liquor jug empty] No courage left. Well, courage can be purchased at yon tavern. But have we credit? That is the question. Have we credit? Well, credit is cheap. Wait for me, old servant of the public weal. Our shining hour is yet to come. As for you, Horace Greeley, go west, old man, and grow young with the country."

"The unsteady hand betrays."

"A beer’s not drinking."

"I'd be a poor newspaperman indeed if I didn't know what everybody else knows!"

"Well, Pompey, looks like we got ourselves a ladies man!"

"It ain’t mannerly, out West, let a fella drink by himself."

"Pompey, go find Doc Willoughby. If he's sober, bring him back."

"I know those law books mean a lot to you, but not out here. Out here a man settles his own problems."

"Whoa, take'er easy there, Pilgrim."

"Liberty Valance's the toughest man south of the Picketwire - next to me."

"You talk too much, think too much. Besides, YOU didn't kill Liberty Valance."

"You got a choice, Dishwasher. Either you get out of town, or tonight you be out on that street alone. You be there, and don't make us come and get you."

"Joseph Hoover - Charlie Hasbrouck - Reporter for 'The Star'"

"Paul Birch - Mayor Winder"

"O. Z. Whitehead - Herbert Carruthers"

"Robert F. Simon - Handy Strong"

"Lee Van Cleef - Reese"

"Strother Martin - Floyd"

"Denver Pyle - Amos Carruthers"

"Woody Strode - Pompey"

"Carleton Young - Maxwell Scott"

"Willis Bouchey - Jason Tully - Conductor"

"John Qualen - Peter Ericson"

"Jeanette Nolan - Nora Ericson"

"John Carradine - Maj. Cassius Starbuckle"

"Ken Murray - s Doc Willoughby"

"Andy Devine - Marshal Link Appleyard"

"Ah, yes. I knew your people, Sean. Your grandfather, he died in Australia, in a penal colony. And your father, he was a good man too."

"Charles FitzSimons - Hugh Forbes"

"Arthur Shields - Rev. Cyril Playfair"

"Francis Ford - Dan Tobin"

"Mildred Natwick - The Widow Sarah Tillane"

"Ward Bond - Father Peter Lonergan"

"Victor McLaglen - Squire "Red" Will Danaher"