- Ruth: [packing church things] We're always the first to go. The saloon and the whorehouse, the last. Why do you suppose that is, Mr. Bohannon?
- Cullen Bohannan: Sin takes longer to pack.
- Cullen Bohannan: Well, where the hell is Cheyenne?
- Ulysses S. Grant: I had the Bureau of Land Management rename the town of Durant to Cheyenne.
- Cullen Bohannan: You renamed Durant's town?
- Ulysses S. Grant: Yes, sir, I did.
- Cullen Bohannan: [laughs heartily] Oh! Does he know yet?
- Ulysses S. Grant: Nope.
- Cullen Bohannan: Can I tell him?
- Louise Ellison: Well, I see nothing's changed around here.
- Cullen Bohannan: One less mule
- [seeing Durant]
- Cullen Bohannan: one more jackass.
- Louise Ellison: What did you mean when you said General Grant's men murdered your family?
- Cullen Bohannan: [continues walking away]
- Louise Ellison: If I'm going to write the truth, I'm going to need...
- Cullen Bohannan: What truth, yours, mine, or theirs?
- Louise Ellison: *The* truth.
- Cullen Bohannan: There's no such thing.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: The school of hard knocks was my teacher. And do you know what I learned?
- Sean McGinnes: If Mr. Bohannan finds out that I've been...
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: That a man who is encumbered by what's right and what's wrong, will never achieve anything.
- Sean McGinnes: Are you listening to me?
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: I am not encumbered by what encumbers most men, because I am not most men.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: [cross examining] You've written numerous articles about Mr. for the New York Tribune since your assignment at Hell on Wheels, haven't you?
- Louise Ellison: Yes.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: Do you know him well?
- Louise Ellison: I don't think anyone knows him well.
- Ruth: My father once told me, to put the past behind you, you must accept that you've moved beyond it. I don't think you have, Mr. Bohannan. The truth is, until you do, I'm not sure the railroad can save you.
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: The only and only thing I ever truly wanted. To be known as the man who built the Union Pacific Railroad.
- Louise Ellison: That's all?
- Thomas 'Doc' Durant: [laughs] Well, that's quite enough, thank you.
- Cullen Bohannan: You come here to kill me?
- Jasper Prescott: Yes.
- Cullen Bohannan: Anything I can say to talk you out of it?
- Jasper Prescott: No.
- Cullen Bohannan: [shoots him between the eyes] I *am* sorry for your loss.
- Cullen Bohannan: General. I think maybe you're in need of a good snipe hunt.
- Ulysses S. Grant: I've been known to enjoy a good snipe hunt now and again.