- Luther Wicks: [Seeing a rider approach from the distance] Whoever that be?
- Ned Britt: Somebody with a taste for solitude. Texas Trail makes lonely riding for a man alone.
- Ben Garvin: News comes in pieces, boys, like a suit of clothes. Don't ever sport the jacket unless you're sure you got the breeches on.
- Ben Garvin: Why do you want this town on the rocks, Mr. Lunsford?
- Blair Lunsford: Me? You've been puffin' locoweed.
- Flora Talbot: [upon seeing in the paper Ned's tribute to the deceased Blair] Thank you, Ned.
- Ned Britt: Thank old Ben Garvin, he made the rules for the paper. One was never to pitchfork the dead.