The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

John Vernon: Captain Fletcher

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• Senator : The war's over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there's an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils.

  Fletcher : There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

• [last lines] 

  [Fletcher knows he's talking to Josey Wales] 

  Fletcher : I think I'll go down to Mexico to try to find him.

  Josey Wales : And then?

  Fletcher : He's got the first move. I owe him that. I think I'll try to tell him the war is over. What do you say, Mr. Wilson?

  Josey Wales : I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war.

• Fletcher : Damn you, Senator. You promised me those men would be decently treated.

  Senator Lane : They were decently treated. They were decently fed and then they were decently shot. Those men are common outlaws, nothing more.

• Fletcher : [Fletcher notices Terrell standing with Lane]  What the hell is this Redleg doin' here? You said regular Federal authorities would be handling this!

  Senator Lane : Captain Terrell is the regular Federal authority now.

  Fletcher : Captain Terrell is a bloodthirsty sonofabitch! He's a looter and a pillager! He's the worst enemy those men have got!

• [telling Capt. Terrell why they need to go in a different direction than Wales' true course] 

  Fletcher : Look at those boys over there: tied-down guns. Bounty hunters. Come out of a war, got no other way to make a livin'. Every last mother's son of them wants that money you got on Wales' head. Now, you and me didn't ride all that way for that. I don't want to hear Wales dead... I want to SEE Wales dead.