- [while Simon and Clay were enjoying a drink in one corner of the saloon, Bill Jason shot a gambler who accused him of cheating in another]
- Marshal Simon Fry: Me and my deputy were sittin' less than 20 feet away. You coulda let the law handle it for ya.
- Bill Jason: I guess I don't always think as fast as I shoot, Marshal.
- [Bill taps his holster]
- Bill Jason: The law on my hip was closer.
- [Billy Jason has just shot Garth Cabot in a fair fight]
- Marshal Simon Fry: You the Billy Jason that defended himself against Ron Barkley in Mesa a couple of weeks back and against Swifty Stone last winter in Phoenix?
- Bill Jason: That's me.
- Marshal Simon Fry: There's always someone like Cabot can't stand to hear someone's better without findin' out for himself.
- Clay McCord: Did you know Garth Cabot was comin' here, Billy?
- Bill Jason: You keep forgettin' I was mindin' my own business, so now I gotta tell you to do the same.
- Tom Arnold: If your pop was here I bet he'd stand Billy to a drink.
- Clay McCord: Things are different now.
- Bill Jason: Men like Cabot ain't any different. If he was bent on makin' trouble, you couldn't talk him out of it.
- Clay McCord: I'd try.
- Tom Arnold: The way I knew Luke McCord, he might be ashamed to hear you talkin' like that.
- Clay McCord: Careful what you say, Mr. Arnold, because the way you talk, you don't sound like you knew my father at all. Figure Billy Jason for a hero if you like, but one day he's going to gun down an innocent man and when that day comes, I don't want anyone of you to say Luke McCord taught him that!
- Tom Arnold: Is it true like you say, that you only come back to Silver City because it's your hometown?
- Bill Jason: You heard me say it.
- Tom Arnold: Then you better learn to get along with Clay McCord, 'cause you can't get along against him.
- [anticipating a showdown with Billy Jason, Clay practices his skill with a pistol]
- Clay McCord: That's fast enough.
- Marshal Simon Fry: When did you slink in, Simon?
- Clay McCord: A couple of draws back.
- [Clay straps on his gun to fight Billy Jason]
- Clay McCord: I say it's better to prevent a crime than solve one.
- [last lines]
- Sergeant Hapgood Tasker: Phew! Ten years off of my life the thought of you havin' to fight him. I saw the whole thing from the window.
- Clay McCord: You figure my chances to be that bad, Sarge?
- Sergeant Hapgood Tasker: That's got nothing' to do with it, Clay. I figure that no matter where Luke McCord is, it would have been another notch on his gun and he wouldn't have been no more proud of it that you would.
- Clay McCord: You know, Sarge, you see more through that one eye than most folks do with two.