- [Meg Billings' husband has been paroled from prison]
- Sergeant Hapgood Tasker: Simon, can I ask you somethin'?
- Marshal Simon Fry: Sure.
- Sergeant Hapgood Tasker: Couple or three times I heard talk - about you and Meg billings, I mean.
- Marshal Simon Fry: It's killin' I'm here to stop, not talk.
- [Shad Billings has just been paroled from prison where he was serving time for murder]
- Marshal Simon Fry: What are you going to do?
- Shad Billings: Raise cattle again. Why?
- Marshal Simon Fry: Cattle... maybe a little Cain?
- Marshal Simon Fry: Come here to tell you that Shad Billings is back.
- Trace Phelan: You on the level?
- Marshal Simon Fry: I'll tell you one more thing, Phelan. Stay away from him - and his wife.
- Barber: [to Phelan] Looks like you won't be needin' a bath this trip.
- Trace Phelan: Oh, shut up and fix that water.
- Shad Billings: Oh, I can mend fences, I can paint, I can work from dawn until dark, but what can I do to mend what's happened to us?
- Meg Billings: Nothing. Too much has come between. Too much liquor, too much trying to push back loneliness...
- Meg Billings: Simon Fry was here yesterday. He wanted me to go away. I wouldn't then, 'cause I wanted you to punish me. Now it'll be me that'll punish you. Folks won't forget about me; they'll talk, they'll shame you.
- Marshal Simon Fry: Join me in a drink?
- Trace Phelan: Well now, that's real nice of you, Marshal, but I got a rule - no liquor when I'm workin'.
- Marshal Simon Fry: Can't see you gettin' much done.
- Trace Phelan: For an impatient man like me, waitin's work.
- Trace Phelan: You know, Marshal, I'm by way of bein' a peaceful man. You ask anybody here who it was that settled the trouble at the Arizona Star mine when the diggers wanted two dollars a day more.
- Marshal Simon Fry: Killed a couple of men settlin' it.
- Trace Phelan: They drew on me - a dozen witnesses saw 'em. Couldn't just stand there. Besides, that's what the mine company hired me for - to keep everything peaceful... even if it took bullets to do it.
- [Simon has arrested Shad for a parole violation]
- Trace Phelan: You all saw him - he don't even wear a gun. This time it was Shad; next time it'll be me.
- Marshal Simon Fry: That's right, Phelan.
- Trace Phelan: You gonna run me out of town, Marshal?
- Marshal Simon Fry: What I said was clean out of the territory.
- [Phelan reaches for his gun]
- Marshal Simon Fry: You make *that* move and you might go even further.
- Barber: Trace Phelan backed down to you, Marshal. He backed down!
- Marshal Simon Fry: That disappoint you?
- Barber: Nobody can say I like to see blood spilled.
- Marshal Simon Fry: Well, that ought to make your customers feel better when you shave 'em.
- [last lines]
- [Simon kills Phelan when he tries to use Meg as a hostage]
- Marshal Simon Fry: I said, "Clean out of the territory" but I warned him it might be even further than that.