- John Gardner: Look here, you're a public servant!
- Clay McCord: And you're a public nuisance, Mr. Gardner. At least you're a nuisance to me and you make it more public every day.
- Ramon Ortega: What's the real reason you come to Silver City?
- Marshal Simon Fry: Oh, I wanted to check up on some rumors I heard.
- Ramon Ortega: Rumors?
- Marshal Simon Fry: In writin'.
- Ramon Ortega: Now look, Marshal, no matter how bad my past record, I'm an honest man today and yet Mr. Gardner wants Clay to run me out of town.
- Marshal Simon Fry: If I know my deputy, he laughed in his face.
- Ramon Ortega: You know your deputy.
- Marshal Simon Fry: Well, he'd better stop laughin' and start to finagle something. By buyin', borrowin', beggin' or stealin', he's going to have t get enough help to stop these robberies or I'll make him wish he was back runnin' the general store again.
- Ramon Ortega: You know I've given up the use of guns.
- Clay McCord: Open your coat.
- Ramon Ortega: Hmm?
- Clay McCord: Open it.
- [Ortega opens his coat and reveals two small pistols inside]
- Clay McCord: Looks like they haven't given you up.
- Ramon Ortega: Well, a man cannot walk around undressed. You know, somebody who's not peaceful may shoot holes in him.
- Clay McCord: I'm afraid that's the price you have to pay for you kind of life.
- Ramon Ortega: You cannot drive us out of business. We have broken no laws!
- Clay McCord: I've got a whole book full of ordinances. If you haven't broken any of them, I'll have the city council pass some you have broken.
- Ramon Ortega: You're lying to me, Ruby.
- Ruby: I'm not lying to you.
- Ramon Ortega: Of course you are - and not very well.
- Ramon Ortega: How many are in the bunch?
- Ruby: Six or seven. I can't remember how many Blue said.
- Miller: That's a tough job takin on six hard cases on their home ground.
- Ramon Ortega: If you would fish, you must put something very tempting on the line. I'm thinking of silver buillion - a wagonload of silver bars worth eighty thousand dollars.
- Ramon Ortega: You'll soon see who are the real bandits.
- Clay McCord: If what you say is true, Ortega, you better duck fast when they show up, 'cause they hit hard and they use lead, not words.