- Leslie Ivers: Thank heavens I've arrived in time.
- Bradley Mason: Time? Time ran out for us long ago.
- Leslie Ivers: It was only suspended. I always know we'd meet again.
- Bradley Mason: With Charlie's body lying between us? Trust Charlie to strike the last blow, even from the grave.
- Leslie Ivers: Yet it's because of Charles that I'm here. He telegraphed me from Denver to meet him.
- Bradley Mason: ...Take David and go back to San Fransisco. Stay out of this.
- Leslie Ivers: No, not this time. This time we going to fight.
- Bradley Mason: No. So many private things would be made public.
- Leslie Ivers: Does it matter if your life is saved?
- Mark Applewhite: I believe you all right. The human mind, the human memory is a very strange instrument. You know, sometimes it sees things it isn't even conscious of seeing. And later on, under, emotional stimulus, the memory returns to us, and what we saw drops into place like a missing piece in a picture puzzle.
- Sir Alexander Drew: It's not been difficult to present a case against Mason. I do not envy the defence the task of defending him. The Prosecution rests.
- Molly Cassidy: I went down to the waterhole for some water. I saw Mr Ivers and Mr Mason at the far side of the hole. And I heard Mr Ivers say: Don't threaten me. And then there was a pause. In a different kind of voice he said: You wouldn't want me to tell everybody who and what you are, but I will if you don't leave me alone.
- Sir Alexander Drew: What did Bradley Mason answer?
- Molly Cassidy: They didn't answer. They saw me and stopped talking. Then I filled my bucket and went back.
- Sir Alexander Drew: And that was the last time you saw Mr Ivers alive?
- Molly Cassidy: Yes, sir.
- Mr. Miller: Why, Major. Life's the way it is. You can't change it. People are the same as they've always been. Didn't the Romans throw the Christians to the lions and watch the show? And besides you're cheating the rest of us out of a little fun.
- Charlie Wooster: Sure tired of sitting in the old jury box. It's just like going to school.
- Bill Hawks: You never went to school.
- Charlie Wooster: I know that. I've seen pictures of schoolrooms.
- Bill Hawks: Oh, man.
- Mark Applewhite: You drew position 64, which position you later traded with Mr Foster. Was that right?
- Molly Cassidy: Yes, sir. That's right, sir. It completely slipped my mind.
- Mark Applewhite: Slipped your mind? And yet you gave Mr Foster $25 to trade places. Mm?
- Mark Applewhite: Bradley Mason is a young man in the Spring of his life. Ahead of him still are the Summer, the Autumn and the Winter. Like most young men he wants to till his share of the soil, build his home, consummate his love, and raise his family.
- Mark Applewhite: 40 years of telling others what to do. And now here I am wishing I had someone to tell me what to do. 40 years of teaching Law. The Law is your sword, young men. Keep it clean and shining bright. Take up that sword and fire it with rhetoric and logic until it is hot and invincible. Ah, balderdash. Balderdash and poppycock. 40 years of teaching balderdash and poppycock. What right have I in the arena, a foolish old pedagogue mouthing platitudes with a young man's life in the balance?
- Leslie Ivers: I went back to Buffalo, I married Charles, and I was never happy again. But, on the day of my seventh birthday, I found at last someone I could love. My son was born.
- Sir Alexander Drew: You hated your brother. Admit it.
- Bradley Mason: I disliked him most of the time.
- Sir Alexander Drew: Why didn't you and your brother use the same name?
- Bradley Mason: You'll have to ask my brother.
- Sir Alexander Drew: Don't banter with me, sir.
- Bradley Mason: My brother changed his name. I didn't change mine.
- Sir Alexander Drew: Perhaps the jury will not view him with eyes so prejudiced as yours. Mrs Ivers, you're a gallant opponent. I wish you could have been on my side.
- Leslie Ivers: [She reads from the telegramme her deceased husband wired to her] Several old acquaintances have turned up on the trip, with, you may be pleased to know, threats against my life.