- Wishbone: You got the rest of the evening to yourself. Now, you can go draw yourself a tarp and a blanket and get yourself a nice, soft rock for a pillow, and I won't disturb you again until 3.30 in the morning!
- Ben Whitney III: Who the devil are you?
- Wishbone: Well, you're smack in the middle of nowhere, boy, and, for all you know, I might be the Devil itself. So you just mind your manners.
- Ben Whitney III: Well, any of you men think you can pour coffee and dip sugar better than me, I'll trade jobs with you. I can ride better than any of you old buzzards anyhow.
- Gil Favor: Sonny boy, nobody ever won a war with his mouth. Quince, Scarlet, that cup of coffee you're gonna feed him, see it's got lots of sugar in it.
- Jim Quince: Yeah!
- [Quince was one of Ben's salted sugar trick victims]
- Joe Scarlet: Open wide, boy.
- Jim Quince: We know what's best for you! Drink her down! Best cure I know for a sweet tooth!
- Sam Hargis: I'm the one, Favor. I dropped the loop over your ramrod here, gave him a Dutch ride. Nobody talks to Sam Hargis like way. Nobody.
- Sam Hargis: But there he was, standing shoulder to shoulder with me when he signed up. Good soldier too. Then that charge at Shiloh, our regiment broke through. Two of us running, yelling like we won the battle all by ourselves. Then he wasn't yelling anymore.
- Ben Whitney III: You did pull me out of that water.
- Sam Hargis: Nothing I didn't do for my own boy. Six times a week, twice on Sunday.
- Ben Whitney III: Took me on a trip this time. Out West. Big buffalo hunt. Private railroad car. And he spent all of his time with a bunch of stuffed shirt bankers. Just as if I was so much excess baggage.
- Ben Whitney III: Hargis wasn't all that bad, Mr Favor. He just needed, well, he forgot how to meet people halfway. Just forgot to give a little.