Ox-Bow Incident

Major Tetley:
This isn't slightly any of your business my friend.

Gil Carter:
Hangin' is any man's business that's around.

Gil Carter:
A man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands and hang people without hurtin' everybody in the world, 'cause then he's just not breaking one law but all laws. Law is a lot more than words you put in a book, or judges or lawyers or sheriffs you hire to carry it out. It's everything people ever have found out about justice and what's right and wrong. It's the very conscience of humanity. There can't be any such thing as civilization unless people have a conscience, because if people touch God anywhere, where is it except through their conscience? And what is anybody's conscience except a little piece of the conscience of all men that ever lived?

Gil Carter:
They're kiddin' you Sparks

Sparks:
I know sir. But maybe Mr. Smith's accidentally right. Maybe I ought to go along

Major Tetley:
I'll have no female boys bearing my name.

Judge Daniel Tyler:
One more word out of you, Smith, and I'll have you up for impeding the course of justice.

Jenny Grier:
Judge, you can't impede what don't move anyway.

Major Tetley:
Other men with families have had to die for this sort of thing. It's too bad, but it's justice.

Donald Martin:
Justice? What do you care about justice? You don't even care whether you've got the right men or not. All you know is you've lost something and somebody's got to be punished.