- Quanah Parker: This will all be your land, white eyes. But it was ours. And when you walk here, even after we are dead, you will not be alone. And behind the laughing of your children, will be ghosts of the laughing of ours. Only let us live out our time. Before you take it all away.
- Juliana Guilder: Even playing by mail, that move will see you check-mated with three moves, Mr Paladin.
- Paladin: Thank you very much, but I haven't made my move yet, Madame.
- Juliana Guilder: No? All I've heard about for the past weeks is an impetuous Mr Paladin. Now is no time for you to break caution.
- Paladin: I'm not for sale, Commodore.
- Commodore Jonathan Guilder: 5,000 for a month's service.
- Paladin: Not for ten.
- Commodore Jonathan Guilder: Fifteen then. Be ready to leave in the morning, I'll send a man for your things.
- Paladin: I'm not a shotgun.
- Juliana Guilder: How wise. There should be a limit to the spirit of adventure.
- Madge Mattock: I'm Madge Mattock and I'm taking care of you.
- Rio Jones: Well, I don't aim to disappoint you, Ma'am. But I'm hurt awful bad.
- Paladin: THAT'S A SCALP! Ranchers pay money for Indian hair. So bounty men like him kill Indians for the money! Cheap easy way to solve the Indian problem
- Rio Jones: Not me! Never me!
- Juliana Guilder: How much, Mr Paladin? How much do they pay for an Indian?
- Paladin: A dollar and a half. Sometimes a dollar!