- Jim Quince: [Wish drops about a teaspoon of stew from the big ladle onto Quince's plate] Where's the rest of it?
- Wishbone: That's all there is.
- Jim Quince: Wishbone, he's an A - W - O - L, non-com, and maybe even worse, yet you give him three times as much as me. Why?
- Wishbone: Because that was his first helping and you've had three. And he hasn't had two square meals ahead of this like you have. That good enough?
- Capt. Jesse Coulter: Old blister proud of me? Oh, no. I'm the backward child. He was a Light Colonel when he was my age.
- Rowdy Yates: [Sam starts to remove his boots] I ask you to do that?
- Sgt. Sam Turner: No, Sir.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, wait until I ask you to do that.
- Sgt. Sam Turner: Yes, Sir.
- Jim Quince: I wonder what happened to Rowdy's horse.
- Joe Scarlet: I don't know. If he don't tell me, I ain't about to ask him.
- Rowdy Yates: Quince, I need your horse.
- Jim Quince: I'll ride back and get you one.
- Rowdy Yates: Now! Get Down! Scarlet, get him a horse, will yah. Nothing I hate to see is a man standing around when he's getting paid to work.
- Sgt. Sam Turner: You know you coulda been more outspoken, Mister. You coulda told me your horse was going lame.
- Rowdy Yates: Well, I tried, but, er, you didn't seem to want to listen.
- Sgt. Sam Turner: Yes, I was in a pretty big hurry.
- Jim Quince: I've known soldiers to lose their stripes once or twice. But I never knew a sergeant to wear a coat without buttons, especially with a pair of field glasses on yer trail.
- Wishbone: You timed it right, got here after all the hard work was done.
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah, well, that takes experience.
- Capt. Jesse Coulter: Who's in command here?
- Gil Favor: [Gil spits out his half cheroot] Well, I'm sorta the boss here, Name's Gil Favor.
- Sgt. Sam Turner: What the Captain said is what happened.
- Gil Favor: You're facing a General Court.
- Sgt. Sam Turner: Big one.
- Gil Favor: Mainly big enough to be reserved for crimes punishable by death.
- Sgt. Sam Turner: Well, you know I don't go into doing things in a small way.
- Jim Quince: Well, I admit I didn't like him at first, not 'til that Corporal knocked him down, and I got to thinking, never met a man that did more and asked for less. This may sound funny coming from me, but I figure he's got a break coming.
- Gil Favor: I finally come up with a solution to your picking up strays. If he don't come up a winner, you gonna come up a loser. Yup, if he isn't a top hand all the way, his pay's gonna be deducted from your pay. And when you count up what you got left, you won't be eager to save every poor soul that comes along. You getting the message?
- Rowdy Yates: Yeah, well, it's sorta sinking in.
- Gil Favor: good.
- Pvt. Goodlove: You're the lowest, the meaniest, the dirtiest piece of nothing that ever wore a uniform. You can stink out a whole troop just by walking by. I never wanted to see but one man die, in all my life, just one man. But you can bet on it, the day they put you in front of a firing squad, I'll be there, in the front row! with bells on!