The Missourians (1950)

Monte Hale: Marshal Bill Blades

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.

• Steve Kovacs : It looks like I might be making a new friend out of an old enemy, Bill.

  Bill Blades : Sometimes they're the best kind.

• [last lines] 

  Bill Blades : Well, they can't say you're not the best-dressed lawyer in Texas, John.

  John X. Finn : I'd take that as a nasty crack if you wasn't our leadin' citizen and if it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have a church opening to go to.

  Steve Kovacs : Or a town that finally gave me a chance.

  Bill Blades : It takes more than one man to make a town a decent for folks to live in, Steve. It takes all the people.

  John X. Finn : Well, come on, let's get out of here.

  Bill Blades : Now wait a minute. Someone's got to ride ahead and warn the congregation about that suit. I'll see you in church!