- Paladin: You say nobody can carry guns in this town, so the only people who have guns are the outlaw scum who will continue to come through here. You can't protect the people in this town. But you take away the only means they have of defending themselves.
- Paladin: [giving his code of law] Thou shalt not kill a man unless he's armed and facing you; thou shalt not steal a man's house; thou shalt not rob at gun point.
- Sheriff Owen Deaver: What if the sheriff gets up on the wrong side of bed and everything is a crime?
- Paladin: Don't you think you ought to allow the decent people to keep enough.arms to defend themselves?