- Alibi Joe: He's the first person to ever treat me square. You know what he told me? He said, "You're not a bad man, Joe - you just got drove into a corner." And that's the God's truth to it.
- Marshal Nix: You gotta get outta this, Bill. Now, I've smelled stinkers in my time, and this is higher than a mad dog's privates.
- Bill Tilghman: They said, "Put Tom Mix it - we'll show it."
- Zoe: What'd you say?
- Bill Tilghman: I told 'em Tom Mix is too damn pretty to come from Oklahoma!
- Bill Tilghman: This one - Dalton Brothers, who tried to rob two banks at one time. This thing about outlaws, boys - dumber'n stink bugs, most of 'em.
- Zoe: There're no more heroes.
- Bill Tilghman: Is that a fact?
- Zoe: Yes, it's a fact. He's talkin' about what the world's become after that horrible war.
- Bill Tilghman: You just mean he's talkin' about a couple a' lazy bums who need a good kick in their Royal Americans.
- Bill Tilghman: I do admire your fine opinion, Mr. Lynn. Yessir - Poppin' up there like mushrooms on a manure pile.
- Bill Tilghman: A man's gotta stick up fer who he's been, Emmet - things he believes in - otherwise, what'd God put 'im here for?
- Real Arkansas Tom: I know, ya seen them Hollywood pitchers come around lately, ones that make a - a - a -bum like me -
- [unintelligible]
- Real Arkansas Tom: ... more than a fool. But I'm here now ta tell ya that bein' an outlaw - *cheatin'* and *hurtin'* folks - is about as smart a thing t' do as huntin' skunks underwater!
- [laughter and applause]
- Bill Tilghman: I never seen a town I couldn't handle.
- Zoe: Well, aren't you just God Almighty!
- Bill Tilghman: Oh, now simmer down, Zoe...
- Zoe: That's right; I fergot - You rode with th' Earps, partnered with Masterson, captured Cattle Annie and Little Britches, brought in the Wild Bunch - Ye'r Bill Tilghman! You can do anything! Well, I don't need another horse's ass, 'cuz I'm already livin' with one!
- Bill Tilghman: Jist put that gun away, mister; go on home. I never killed a man I didn't have to. Jist hate seein' a man's face when he dies. It changes from bein' a person to a thing. Y' ever seen that?
- Reporter: ...So a bunch of you old, uh, no offense, you Oklahoma lawmen got fed up and raised your own money to make a picture that told the true story, how it really was back in the early day, is that it?
- Bill Tilghman: Mister, there's only one story young folks in this country should understand - that's jist how low and orn'ry and mean the life of an outlaw was then and still is today.
- Bill Tilghman: Ever seen a man burned alive? Old-timers say a horse can scream 'til it'll near burst your ears. A horse ain't nuthin' to a man.
- Bill Tilghman: A long time ago - after my pa's at war - I was runnin' the farm my own - and my sister - we're gatherin' blackberries off Atchinson Road...
- Tench: What happened, Pa?
- Bill Tilghman: This lone rider - came up on an old government remount - big, wide-brimmed hat, silver marshal's badge, and this frock shirt - couple of long-barreled Colts on front his belt - and a long, droopy mustache. Funny how I can see it so clear, even today.
- Tench: Well, whad'he want?
- Bill Tilghman: Well, he said he was lookin' for a man with a stand of mules - wondered if we'd seen 'em...
- Bill Tilghman's son Woody: Didja?
- Bill Tilghman: Yup, yup, we sure did, and we told 'im so - seem this fella stole these mules, all the way back from Fort Hayes - had the bad luck t' bein' chased 400 miles by William P. Hickock!