- Red: Comanches. Government Treaties. Principles of Land.
- Vance: He was a lawyer fresh of of school looking for some nice little town to hang up his shingle.
- Red: Stupid guy, didn't even carry a gun. See what else he's got worth taking. Wouldn't have much use for this. Too bad, just about your size.
- Vance: I wonder what it'd be like to ride into town again in broad daylight.
- Red: You ain't liable to find out. Not with any town with a telegraph anyway.
- Vance: One meal at a table, one night in a bed.
- Rowdy Yates: What does this 'amicus curiae' mean?
- Vance: I can't go around giving away my trade secrets. Otherwise how could I collect those fat fees that I hope to get.
- Gil Favor: It's a funny thing about these towns, they don't like anything about my men. Except the money they spend.
- Vance: I'm surprised you don't have a good lawyer.
- Mayor Watkins: Well, we did have, but he died last year.
- Vance: Dissatisfied client?
- Mayor Watkins: No, dissatisfied liver.
- Gil Favor: It doesn't bother you a bit. Eating a man's food, drinking his liquor and killing him in cold blood.
- Vance: Officially I can't recommend that you take the law into your own hands. Speaking to you as a friend that's the only way you're going to keep Yates from hanging tomorrow.