- Paladin: Hey Boy, it's not very often the father offers to hunt down and kill his own son no matter what. Get me an envelope and enough stamps to reach the Arizona territory please.
- Paladin: Son, I'm no Sheriff and I'm no preacher. I figure that a man who deserves that kind of loyalty you're given your brother, must have something to favour his side of the story.
- Jamie Murdock: Well, ain't it enough that he's my brother?
- Jamie Murdock: It's all hard country around here. And I wouldn't advise you to take a horse across it unless he's got good iron on all four feet.
- Paladin: A man does what has to be done, Jamie. Or he tries. That's the only way a man can live, Or die.
- Aaron Murdock: The Sheriff took me. He did it out of pure meanness.
- Paladin: You believe it?
- Aaron Murdock: I've seen Lew's face when he was branding beef, or raking his spurs into some unbroke horse. Lew takes pleasure in hurting what's helpless.