- Col. Lanser: I'm prepared to shoot 5 men, 50 men, 500 men, until you and your people understand who is master here.
- Mayor Orden: They're orderly under their own government. How they'd be under anybody else's, I don't know.
- Col. Lanser: Perhaps I should warn you, gentlemen, not to be misled by my preference for peaceable methods. If it becomes necessary, I promise you I will not hesitate to destroy this town utterly, including its population.