- James Pepper: You know, there's an old saying, Miss Sally. There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum?
- John Simpson Chisum: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.
- Justice J.B. Wilson: Mr. Murphy. Just how much of Lincoln County are you after?
- Lawrence Murphy: Well, Mr. Chisum came out here several years ago, put his name on everything he could. I've only been here a little while. Just getting started. Do you have anything to say to that, Mr. Chisum?
- John Simpson Chisum: Well I don't favor talking to vermin, but I'll talk to you just this once. You're not just getting started. The line's been drawn. What Billy did balanced the books so far. But if one of your men cross my land or even touch one of my cows, or do anything to that store, I'm not going to the sheriff, the governor, or the president of the United States. I'm coming to see you.
- Lawrence Murphy: Hmph. Mr. Chisum, that sounds like a threat.
- John Simpson Chisum: [John Chisum belts Murphy, knocking him down with his right fist] Wrong word. FACT!
- Billy the Kid: I made you a promise, Mr. Tunstall. Now I'm making myself a promise. It says in the Bible, "The candle of the wicked shall be put out."
- Morton: You're going to shoot us, ain't you Chisum?
- John Simpson Chisum: I thought about it. Then I thought about something Henry Tunstall once said. He watched a man walk to the gallows... saw him hang. He said it was ghastly. Well, I've seen men hang, and that's the word - ghastly. You two are going to hang.
- John Simpson Chisum: I'm going down there, the rest of you cover me with your long guns.
- [James Pepper follows Chisum]
- John Simpson Chisum: I said cover me!
- James Pepper: I know what you said, Mr. Chisum! But I ain't the rest of them!
- Neemo: So if you want these horses, I sell them to you. Did you bring some gold with you?
- John Simpson Chisum: No.
- Neemo: Silver?
- John Simpson Chisum: Just lead!
- James Pepper: What are you going to do?
- John Simpson Chisum: What I had done twenty-five years ago. Pat, get the men out of South Camp. Trace, you round up everybody that can ride a horse or pull a trigger. Let's break out some Winchesters!
- James Pepper: Would you like to hear my opinion, Mr. John Simpson Chisum?
- John Simpson Chisum: Nope.
- James Pepper: Well, my opinion is all this speechifying, store keeping, prayer-meeting don't amount to spit in the river. There's only one thing that's going to make this territory know who's bull of the woods... and sometime or sooner it's going to happen. And you know it.
- John Simpson Chisum: Do I?
- James Pepper: You do. It's just going to be you and Murphy, head-to-head and horn-to-horn... and one hell of a fight. But one of you has got to lose, so the other one walks away with the herd and the whole shebang. Now, that's my opinion.
- John Simpson Chisum: [lighting the sergeant's cigar] Se rgeant, there's one thing I oughtta tell you; if you lay a hand on White Buffalo again, I'll kill ya'.
- Lawrence Murphy: Sheriff Brady, Jess Evans, this is Alex McSween. Uh, he's part of the family.
- Jess Evans: Howdy.
- Sheriff Brady: What does he do?
- Lawrence Murphy: Well, he used to be a storekeeper and now he's my lawyer.
- Jess Evans: I prefer storekeepers!
- Alex McSween: Then don't ever get arrested.
- Jess Evans: I don't intend to.
- Jess Evans: Why get in a frazzle over Chisum? You turn me loose on him... there'll be a sudden funeral right here in Lincoln.
- Lawrence Murphy: Uh-huh. Yours.
- Jess Evans: How's that?
- Lawrence Murphy: Do you play chess?
- Jess Evans: Chess? What the hell has that got to do with Chisum?
- Lawrence Murphy: Everything. You just leave him alone. I'll take care of Mr. Chisum.
- Sheriff Brady: That ain't gonna be easy.
- Lawrence Murphy: You're right. But see, there's a fundamental difference between Mr. Chisum and me.
- Sheriff Brady: Yeah, what's that?
- Lawrence Murphy: Mr. Chisum is a man who respects the law.
- [Chuckles]
- Lawrence Murphy: Around here, I'm the man who owns it.
- Lawrence Murphy: And you good people witnessed the cowardly and cold-blooded murder of our beloved Sheriff Brady by Billy "the Kid" Bonney right over there. Governor Axtell has appointed a new sheriff, Dan Nodeen. He's offered a $200 award for the kid, and I'm adding a further reward of $1,000, dead or alive.
- [Crowd murmurs "$1200"]
- Lawrence Murphy: Sheriff here has formed his posse. Oh... Have you got anything you want to add to that, Sheriff?
- Dan Nodeen: Just this. I'm going to bring Bonney in. Now you people can either help me, or stay the hell out of my way!
- Henry Tunstall: John, I want to thank you for taking care of William.
- John Simpson Chisum: [chuckles] No, not me, Sally.
- Henry Tunstall: She's a wonderful girl, she's a worthwhile lamb.
- John Simpson Chisum: Oh yeah, Henry, according to you, everybody's worthwhile.
- Henry Tunstall: God's children, John. Oh, William reminds me of someone.
- John Simpson Chisum: A black sheep in the family, no doubt.
- Henry Tunstall: No, a young chap I never even talked to. Years ago in England this man very much like William killed a man in some senseless brawl. And I watched that young man walk to the gallows. And I saw him hang. Ghastly sight. There was nothing I could do to help that young lad.
- Pat Garrett: Well, I'm upwind and I smell it on you.
- Billy the Kid: Buffalo?
- Pat Garrett: Death.
- Billy the Kid: I see what you mean. Can it ever go away? That smell I mean.
- Pat Garrett: Sure it can, with time, good company and patience.
- Sheriff Brady: He's deader than a can of corned beef. You just had to kill him, huh?
- Dan Nodeen: A whole lot less trouble that way.
- Lawrence Murphy: What's so funny?
- Jess Evans: This is the first time I ever put somebody else's brand on our own cows.
- Sheriff Brady: [after Garrett busts in a card game] I sure left Garrett holding the short end. Big Casino.
- [laughs]
- Lawrence Murphy: I'm not so sure you won that game.
- Sheriff Brady: Sure I did.
- Lawrence Murphy: Yeah. Sure you did.
- John Simpson Chisum: [Pointing to the bank] You sure you know how to run one of those?
- Alex McSween: All it takes is money.
- John Simpson Chisum: Yeah... mine.
- Sallie Chisum: I think in some ways, the two of them are a lot alike.
- Pat Garrett: Who?
- Sallie Chisum: Uncle John, Billy Bonney. Don't you think they are? Don't you?
- Pat Garrett: Not in the important things.
- Sallie Chisum: Like what?
- Pat Garrett: Well, Mr. Chisum's changed with the times. He doesn't like to let on, but he cares... about the people here and in town, about the Indians and the territory. Well, he's independent, and he likes to do things his own way, but he cares.
- Sallie Chisum: And Billy doesn't?
- Pat Garrett: I guess he can't help it. But you heard him, all he cares about is gettin' those men.
- Sallie Chisum: In a way, doesn't it amount to the same thing?
- Pat Garrett: No. Billy wants revenge. Mr. Chisum wants justice. There's a big difference.