- Jim Vesser: Who put you up to this?
- CC&SJ Man: Nobody put us up to anything.
- Jim Vesser: Well, you're fired!
- CC&SJ Man: Who are you to fire me? You didn't hire me!
- Gil Harkness: No but I did... and you're fired.
- Jim Vesser: We've been surveying this route for three weeks!
- McCabe: And so have we.
- Bob Nelson: Don't get hot-headed Jim. Looks like it's for the courts to decide.
- Jim Vesser: There's nothing in my orders that says I have to wait for any courts to make up their minds. We're going through.
- Bob Nelson: Not along our stakes.
- Jim Vesser: We'll throw them in the river.
- McCabe: You throw one stake in the river and I'll throw you in right after it.
- Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: I saw him shoot those two men. Isn't that enough without torturing this one?
- Jim Vesser: And I suppose they weren't trying to do anything except kill me.
- Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: People like Vesser consider themselves above the law. If he didn't lose his nerve then it's his conscience that bothers him.
- Gen. William J. Palmer: Well, Linda, I say it's a good idea for Captain Vesser to keep out of your way.
- Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: I'd like to meet him.
- Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: That flatcar's coming.
- Jim Vesser: Don't worry, that wall will hold it.
- Linda Nelson alias Linda Prescott: It's loaded with dynamite.
- Jim Vesser: Everybody run!
- Sheriff Ed Johnson: Captain Vesser, you got to be taught a lesson. You got to learn that to fight in a war at peace time is the business of peace officers, not private citizens. We have law in this country, and if a man breaks the law against you, you're just as guilty as him if you break the law trying to get back at him.