- Phil Poe: You better be careful shootin' people, Mr. Marshal. Sullivan's a good customer.
- Wild Bill Hickok: Your good customer just tried to bushwhack me.
- Phil Poe: Sully's harmless.
- Wild Bill Hickok: No one's harmless with a gun and a belly full of liquor.
- Phil Poe: What do ya say a $100 a month?
- Wild Bill Hickok: What kind of a marshal would I be if I didn't follow the letter of the law? I reckon 25% of the house sounds about right, don't it?
- Wild Bill Hickok: [holding him at gunpoint] Notice my hammer tied back? If something should happen to cause my thumb to slip, you will catch a bullet right between your eyes.
- John Wesley Hardin: Well, I can't see what good it's gonna do me to surrender my guns, if you're just gonna go ahead and shoot me in the back the second I turn and walk away.
- Wild Bill Hickok: You have been misinformed, sir. I never shoot a man in the back... How 'bout a compromise? What do you say to a drink?
- John Wesley Hardin: Why do you call me Arkansas?
- Wild Bill Hickok: 'Cause if you were John Wesley Hardin, we'd have to hang you.
- John Wesley Hardin: Arkansas it is.
- George Knox: [Wild Bill] No one can run forever, son. You quit, you surrender, they'll dog your heels till the day you die. But not if you face it.
- Mattie: [to Hickok] You need to leave. Poe will be here soon. Whatever shortcomings he may have... he's punctual.