The Missourians (1950)

John Hamilton: Mayor McDowall

Quotes 

• Mayor Grant McDowall : We don't want foreigners around here, especially those with crime in their blood. If you don't approve, why don't you back home to the old country?

  John X. Finn : Maybe he likes it here, like your folks did when they come over here from Ireland.

  Bill Blades : Why don't you listen to him? He's makin' sense.

  John X. Finn : This is the United States - where every man has a chance to prove himself, whether he's a saint or a sinner - whether he was born in Texas or Timbuktu.

• Mayor Grant McDowall : I was wrong about you, Steve. I'm sorry. Lying here, I've had a chance to think. It's not so much believing that you were guilty that was wrong, but believing that you were different because you're a foreigner... not as good as we are.