- Capt. Francis Cabot: Take a choice, Yates, settle now, or get used to the idea of living with ghosts you can't bury.
- Alexander Longford: A man keeps a hate brewing for all these years. He builds it up and shapes it into a crusade. Why?
- Alexander Longford: They never taste those who always drink. They always talk but never think. So said Brutus, and so said Judas.
- Alexander Longford: I saw eternity the other night, like a great ring. A pure and endless light. Nothing ends, Mr Yates, only hope.
- Alexander Longford: First a boy, then a lawyer, then a judge. And, finally, a man?
- Rowdy Yates: A man.
- Capt. Francis Cabot: Anyway, we're gonna have a trial. We have ourselves a real bona fi-de trial judge over there, the best that whiskey can buy. Just the kind of man to see we don't break any laws. Afterall we couldn't have Yates here saying that his judgement day was illegal, could we?
- Alexander Longford: Behold, gentlemen, my world, my town, my home. And probably, very soon, my grave.
- Rowdy Yates: Tell me, if I close my eyes, the whole thing will go away.
- Gil Favor: What a rotten idea. I thought you dearly loved a good hoedown.
- Rowdy Yates: [the men are enjoying a hoedown with no pesky women in sight] Yeah, with people. But not herd of buffalo.
- Capt. Francis Cabot: Your coffin served its purpose. Right, Judge?
- Alexander Longford: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. No coffin has served its purpose, Captain, not until its four walls quiet the troubling of the wicked, and dim the din of the weary.
- Sam Jordan: The camp commander
- [Major Holbrook]
- Sam Jordan: we called him the Butcher from Boston: Now, you men are lucky. You men have to learn the hard way. I can cross this line
- [the Deadline]
- Sam Jordan: because my uniform is blue. You're not confined to any one area. You are free to roam at will.
- Leslie Bellamy: If you can find a spare yard to walk in.
- Sam Jordan: And if you're injured, you will be given hospital care where you will promptly die.
- Alexander Longford: Hate, it's hard to give up, isn't it? But you'll get something in return. You'll get your freedom from him.