- Ludwig Hauptman: You see Ralph's gun? With your knowledge of guns there's no need to explain what we're after, I'm sure.
- Ernest Pratt: Looks like you're after Poland.
- Harry Parver: Mr. Allen would not approve of Nicodemus Legend drinking bourbon in public.
- Ernest Pratt: It's not in public, it's in a tea cup.
- Ernest Pratt: Lamar won't tell any more than the bartender in Sacramento would tell about you and the girl in the fishnet stockings.
- [giggles]
- Harry Parver: Not at all funny, Mr. Pratt. We both know you slipped something into that drink.
- Ernest Pratt: Mayor, this is just a cultural misunderstanding.
- Mayor Chamberlain Brown: Culture? They shot a stuffed buffalo head. What kind of culture does that?
- Ernest Pratt: I know nothing about buffalos; never even seen a buffalo. I certainly don't know how to find them. I have trouble finding my own room at night sometimes.
- Ernest Pratt: You don't want to go against tradition, do you?
- Ludwig Hauptman: No.
- Ernest Pratt: If I went to Germany, I'd observe German tradition. Heck, I'd even wear those... short little pants.
- Janos Bartok: Why is it that when men find themselves around cattle they have the overwhelming need to say 'Yee-ha'?
- Ernest Pratt: You don't understand. The Indians want to kill the Germans.
- Janos Bartok: What makes you think I don't understand?
- Gizzard-Eating Williams: I tried reading one of your books.
- Ernest Pratt: And you feel you wasted a year of your life?
- Janos Bartok: They can't shoot what they can't find. They'll simply get bored and they will leave.
- Ernest Pratt: Janos, it's impossible to bore a German.
- Ernest Pratt: Here's an idea: how about a traditional Arapaho rain dance; what do you think? Towashie! How about a rain dance! A little tradition, a little rain dance. What do you think? Come on!
- Towashie: We don't need a rain dance; we get fifteen inches of rain a year around here.
- Ernest Pratt: Work with me, Towashie, work with me. Tradition! A little rain, a little...
- Arapaho Holding a Rifle: Why is he hopping around like a moron?
- [in the Arapaho language]