- Buck Cannon: What are you gonna do about it, John?
- Big John Cannon: It's dangerous. We could all be killed trying to nurse him. I guess I'll just have to bury what's left of him.
- Buck Cannon: Well, that's real neighborly of you, John.
- Big John Cannon: Victoria, sometimes I think you can read my mind.
- Victoria Cannon: But of course I can, my husband. Why do you think I blush so much?
- Creed Hallock: Look at those stars! This really is God's country.
- Big John Cannon: And Cochise's.
- Creed Hallock: Well, you seem to have held your own against him. I mean, you've got many times my acres.
- Big John Cannon: It isn't how much you own, Mr. Hallock, it's how much you can control. Between the drought and the rustlers and the Apaches, something is always going to give you a rough argument.
- Megan Hallock: [sobbing and blubbering in shock after an Apache attack] Always on guard, always being afraid.
- Buck Cannon: The day you get used to it, Ma'am, is the day they take you. Now you gotta want this life real bad. You gotta want it rock-bottom sure.
- Megan Hallock: You don't think Creed and I belong here, do you?
- Buck Cannon: Well, Ma'am, sometimes a man like me never gets to meet a woman like you. I'd like you to stay forever and a day. Fact is, I don't think you're fit for it.
- Big John Cannon: Do you want to do them a real favor? You tell them to get out while they can still walk!
- Buck Cannon: How you gonna tell Creed Hallock he's only half a man?
- Big John Cannon: Now that's better than reading over him with a Bible.