- [last lines]
- McComb: It's not a kingdom, Mr. Colton. It's far from it. It's a grubby little town with nothing to recommend it except it's a place to live. And men have died for that questionable privilege.
- William Colton: I guess I was wrong, Mr. McComb. Sometimes the meek do inherit the earth.
- Simon Townsend Jr.: No, please, please! I can suffer the beating, but if this came to a death it would be on my conscience.
- William Colton: Don't let it bother ya, son. I got a big conscience, big enough for the two of us.
- Simon Townsend: We are forbidden any act of violence by the tenets of our faith, so...
- Lowden: We will pay thee if you will perform the act of violence for us.
- Simon Townsend Jr.: What my father and Mr. Loden cannot bring themselves to say quite clearly I will say for them. We want thee to kill McComb.
- McComb: Now you understand me, Mr. Townsend. I built this town. I cleared this land. I came here as a very young man twenty-five years ago when there was nothing here but weeds and cold winters and Indians, but it's a place to live now! And it cost me! My father, scalped and screaming. My wife wasting away with fever. And two sons with arrows in their backs. So don't you tell me that land is cheap. Not this land!