- Hunk: You ain't gonna leave me, are ya, Billy Joe?
- Billy Joe Arlen: Now what do you want to go and make me feel bad for, Huck? You gonna die anyway.
- Hunk: Billy Joe! Billy Joe, don't leave me! Billy Joe!
- [Billy Joe disappears over the horizon]
- Major Emerson Owen: There's no money this month for curtains.
- Mr. Jonas: I can put it down on credit for you, Major.
- Major Emerson Owen: What we buy we pay for; what we cannot pay for we do without.
- Major Emerson Owen: With my own hands I drew my son into life. This morning by my own hands he was put to earth in death. It's our grief. We don't need or ask help to settle it.
- Chester: Well, if he done what Seth and the Major said he done, well, it'd sure make me sick to think of him getting away with it.
- Matt Dillon: I'll tell ya one thing, if he did it, he won't get away with it.
- Matt Dillon: Now, mister, let me tell you something. The only thing standing between you and a lynching is me. And I don't much like where I'm standing.
- Major Emerson Owen: Don't talk to me about army justice. The army was my life. And I was discharged for a wound that didn't matter. The only law I believe in is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Ham was blood of my blood and bone of my bone. And that man took him from us.
- Major Emerson Owen: I had a hunting dog once that went bad, killed my lambs, clawed your mother.
- Major Emerson Owen: God be pleased to rest her.
- Major Emerson Owen: But I let that dog feed before I shot it.
- Major Emerson Owen: I wouldn't do less for a man, even that one.
- Mr. Jonas: Sometimes the law may be wrong, Marshal
- Matt Dillon: That may be, but we can't always just pick and choose the part of it we like, you know.