- Albert L. Patterson: Rhett, I'm not stickin' my neck out. Why should I? Phenix City has been what it is for 80, 90 years. Who am I to try to reform it?
- Rhett Tanner: [Looking at a bowl of turtles painted with numbers] You know, there ought to be a way to make a lot of money with these little turtles.
- Cassie: Hunh?
- Rhett Tanner: Yeah, havin' them in a turtle race, you know. If I could just figure out a way to fix the winner.
- John Patterson: The law came to Phenix City at last. It took my father's death to bring it. It wasn't the kind of law my father fought and died for. But it was the only law the men who killed him could understand. The law with a loaded gun in its hand.
- Mamie: [provocatively as John enters the casino] Are you lookin' for someone important or will I do?
- John Patterson: [Viewing the dead body of a black girl thrown from the car] Who is she?
- Albert L. Patterson: Zeke's baby.
- John Patterson: Did thy kill her just for this?
- Albert L. Patterson: They've killed for less.
- Rhett Tanner: We've got a lot of people to take care of, you know.
- Albert L. Patterson: Everybody has got his hand out?
- Rhett Tanner: Yeah.
- Albert L. Patterson: If you want to stay in business, you've got to keep those hands filled, huh?
- Rhett Tanner: That's just about the size of it.
- Albert L. Patterson: No, thanks.