- Josh Macahan: Well, you can't blame a man for wanting to do more and look when a woman tosses the goods in his face.
- Molly Culhane: Josh!
- Josh Macahan: Oh, you know what I mean, aunt Molly. Laura was doin' nothing but making doe-eyes at him all during dinner. It was just plain sickening.
- [turns to leave]
- Josh Macahan: And aunt Molly, he was lookin'.
- Orville Gant: I ain't askin' for no life-time pledge. I just need some temporary help. You'll get paid a fair wage.
- Luke Macahan: And it doesn't matter that my name and face is on wanted posters all over the territory?
- Orville Gant: If you had any sense, you'd see that's a positive advantage for a man in your situation. Who's gonna be lookin' for a wanted man behind a badge?
- Luke Macahan: Hey, you're too young to be saying 'hell'.
- Tommy Gant: How old do you have to be?
- Luke Macahan: [thinks a moment] Well you're too old to have to ask.
- The Grand Duke: You are fools, all of you. Do you really imagine that you can have a society where every man considers himself the equal of every other man? Where every serf and every peasant opposes his betters with impunity? Where a man like Macahan can defy your authority and walk away without any fear of being punished? No gentlemen, this is folly. Sheer folly. One day soon, this nation will crash around your ears. And I, for one, will await that day with great pleasure.
- Satangkai: We cannot reach the mother of mountains in less than three days, and if the long knives come upon us in the open, we will die like fish in a shallow pond.
- Satangkai: My sun is set. My day is done. Darkness is stealing over me. Before I lie down to rise no more, hear me Great Spirit who made us and gave us this land we live in. You gave us the buffalo, antelope and deer, food and clothing. Our hunting grounds stretched from the Mississippi to the great mountains. We were free as the winds and heard no man's commands. Our children were many and our herds were large. Our old men talked with spirits and made good medicine. No one said this land is mine and that is yours. Then the white man came. We gave him meat and presents and told him to go in peace. He looked on our women and stayed to build rosds. He brought among us iron that shoots and magic water that makes men foolish. I said the white man is not a friend. But their numbers were greater than blades of grass. They took away the buffalo and shot down our best warriors. They wiped the trails of our people from the face of the prairies. They forced our children to forsake the ways of their fathers. When I turn to the East I see no dawn. When I turn to the West the approaching night hides all...