- Pea Eye Parker: What's it read, Gus?
- Gus McCrae: It says, "Josh Deets. Served with me 30 years. Fought In 21 engagements with the Comanche and the Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior." That's what it says.
- Pea Eye Parker: My lord. Old Deets is gone. My lord.
- Gus McCrae: [Call is about to hang Jake] You know how it goes, Jake. You ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. Sorry you crossed the line.
- Jake Spoon: I never seen no line, Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without gettin' scalped.
- Gus McCrae: I don't doubt that's true, Jake.
- Clara Allen: Here, Mr. Johnson. Meet your son.
- [Hands baby to July Johnson, who holds him in his arms]
- Clara Allen: Well, that's a good sign. I guess you'd at least catch him if somebody threw him off a roof.
- Gus McCrae: [after Woodrow almost beats a man to death for whipping Newt and hitting some of his men] It don't do to anger Woodrow F. Call, does it?
- Newt Dobbs: Jake was no killer.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: Jake liked to joke, he didn't like to work. I got exactly those same feelings myself.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I told you what happened. It's an accident she's even on this trip.
- Clara Allen: Oh, I never noticed you having accidents with ugly girls!
- [last lines]
- Woodrow Call: I guess it's our fault, we shoulda shot sooner.
- Augustus 'Gus' McCrae: I don't want to start thinking, Woodrow, about all the things we that shoulda done for this good man.
- Gus McCrae: You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.
- Jake Spoon: I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all.
- Woodrow Call: Didn't you hear me? I said get your boots off
- Dan Suggs: Damned if we will. I said we were horse traders
- Gus McCrae: We're more persuaded by the bodies we just buried. Get your boots off
- Dan Suggs: I don't know what the hell you're talkin' about
- Gus McCrae: You're a black liar sir
- Dan Suggs: Just ask Jake if we didn't buy them horses
- Woodrow Call: 'dyou buy them three cowboys you shot? 'dyou buy them two farmers you burned? Pea, you & Newt get your ropes; tie 'em up
- Jake Spoon: Oh you don't need to tie me up, Newt. Hell I ain't killed anybody. I just fell in with these boys to get me through the territory; hell I was gonna leave 'em first chance I got
- Gus McCrae: I wish you'd taken that chance a little earlier, Jake; a man who'll go along with five killin's, takin' his leave a little slow. Go ahead Newt
- Jake Spoon: Pea, you know me; I ain't no killer. Deets you know it too. Gus I ain't no criminal; now you know that. It was Dan that killed them two sod-busters. Hell I didn't kill nobody
- Dan Suggs: You shut your damn mouth, Spoon
- Woodrow Call: Put 'em on their horses
- Roy Suggs: Where's he goin'?
- Gus McCrae: Pick out a tree to hang you from, son
- Jake Spoon: Gus, I...
- Gus McCrae: You know how it works, Jake: you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line
- Jake Spoon: I didn't see no line, Gus. I was just tryin' to get through the territory, without gettin' scalped; that's all
- Gus McCrae: I'm sure that's true, Jake
- Woodrow Call: You're that sheriff from Fort Smith Arkansas, come lookin' for Jake Spoon
- July Johnson: That was a long time ago. I don't reckon I'm lookin' for him no more
- Woodrow Call: That's good, 'cause he fell in with a bad bunch and we hung 'im
- Clara Allen: Why don't you get down?
- July Johnson: Well thank you but we wouldn't want to trouble you.
- Clara Allen: Oh, we grow our own troubles around here. Their names are Sally and Betsy.
- Woodrow Call: Gus is told his other leg must be removed or he will die. He refuses. Call: What you need legs for, all you do is sit on the porch and drink whiskey?
- Gus McCrae: Gus: I like to kick a pig once in awhile, how would I do that?