- Rowdy Yates: You know what's bothering me.
- Gil Favor: Oh, boy, not that again. We been over that eleventeen times. Now you definitely decided you wouldn't gonna go.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I just undecided myself.
- Gil Favor: Now, look, I don't mind you driving yourself loco, but you're beginning to get to me.
- Johnny: [singing] We will hang old Captain Ballinger as soon as we can find, we'll string him up and drop him tomorrow about nine. The carpenter will stuff him in that long box of pine, and old Captain Ballinger will pay up for his crime.
- Gil Favor: That's an ugly-looking thing, that scaffold.
- T. Reginald Wingate: Never seen a pretty one.
- Jim Quince: Did they fire on you?
- Mrs. Morton: No, Sir.
- Jim Quince: Did they resist when you took 'em?
- Mrs. Morton: No, Sir.
- Jim Quince: Well, what in the blazes did they do? Bruise you with their shadows?
- Rowdy Yates: You people sat around in your comfortable uniforms and let me lead my friend right down to the axe.
- Capt. George Ballinger: The old Indians are either dead or tired. And the young ones are het up because their nation status has been taken away.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, a lot of people lost siding with the Confederacy.
- Capt. George Ballinger: The Indians have a hard time understanding about punishment for something that happened a long time ago.