- Marshal Matt Dillon: Well, if you're not friends of the Peavys, where are you heading? Theirs is the only place this road leads to.
- Jack Cade: A man can ride where he pleases, can't he?
- Marshal Matt Dillon: Well, I guess he can. Unless he's carrying a rifle and his wife is too, and they're heading for somebody's place that they don't particularly like.