- Title Card: It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
- Malcolm Brown: [about the widow Carruthers] Do you know this woman, Harp?
- Declan Harp: Only by reputation.
- Malcolm Brown: I have to warn you that words with her is like puttin' your face against a rolling grindstone.
- Samuel Grant: Seems every time we meet, you're on your way to the gallows.
- Declan Harp: [with his head in the stocks] One of these times, I won't be.
- Samuel Grant: My mother, she raised us alone. She was full of anxieties and paranoias. And there was no one left to raise my infant brother but me. And then one morning - I was six, I was unable to keep him quiet - so my mother dashed his brains out with a rock and they strung her up on the gibbet. So when I go home to Kentucky, do you think they see the man I am today?