- Henry Harlow: The reason why this county is so gosh-awful poor, gentlemen, is because it has such gosh-awful roads linking it to the rest of the world!
- Gene Autry: And the reason we have such bad roads is because we're so poor.
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- Gene Autry: And that, gentlemen, is what three men lost their lives for. That's all Harlow had on that buckboard.
- Pat Buttram: Just plain washers.
- Clem Hughes - Chairman, county board of supervisors: But what about the real money? The twenty thousand dollars?
- Gene Autry: It went to Quincy on the stagecoach. I knew from the start Harlow was trying to pull something sharp, but I couldn't say anything about it. The county needed his three thousand dollars and I didn't want to discourage his generosity.
- Clem Hughes - Chairman, county board of supervisors: So you pulled a switch!
- Gene Autry: Oh, I don't know. Maybe it was a double switch.