The Ballad of Josie

Klugg:
We never could figure out if they was kinfolk come to join the fight or just strangers passin' through.

Josie Minick:
Well, that was awful!

Klugg:
Yes, ma'am, it surely was, them being dead thataway. We never could figure out who'd have to bury 'em.

Jason Meredith:
You know, it takes money, capital, brains and sweat to raise cattle, but any idiot with a two-bit dog and a Winchester can raise sheep.

Jason Meredith:
If I had thought about it, we would have stopped to eat north of the deadline.

Josie Minick:
The what?

Jason Meredith:
The deadline. We passed it about ten minutes back. Sheep to the south, cattle to the north.

Josie Minick:
I don't know anything about a deadline.

Jason Meredith:
Well, there's nothing complicated about it. You see, the cowmen opened up this territory and then the sheepmen tried to move in. Well, we had quite a debate. We burned a lot of powder and a lot of lead and we buried a few. And then finally we drew a line across the southeast section of the state. And the sheep stay on one side and the cattle on the other.

Jason Meredith:
You know, they say that the admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. I don't know a thing about women. I never did.

Mooney:
You hardly think she could shoot that thing.

Jason Meredith:
Ah, that woman gets crazy every so often.

Mooney:
Yeah, they're prisoners of their juices.

Charlie Lord:
[sarcastically] Hail the conquering hero.

Arch Ogden:
You got one minute, Charlie, and that's all!

Charlie Lord:
You'll give me twenty years if you lay a finger on that girl out there and if there's any bodily harm done - or death - you're going to give me all you got left - at the end of a rope!

Charlie Lord:
Either you plaster the seat of those fat pants of yours on your saddle and hightail it out there and call off your dogs, or I'm going to hit you with so many charges that it'll take 127 lawyers to read 'em!

Josie Minick:
What happened?

Klugg:
Boss man and cow feller had a fracas.

[Klugg points toward the ruins of Josie's barn]

Klugg:
Barn went thataway.

Josie Minick:
Where's Jace?

Klugg:
Stove up considerable. We carried him in yonder.

Josie Minick:
Speed won't matter. I'm counting on surprise.

Simpson, General Store Owner:
Oh, they'll be expecting it. You put a woman in pants, the rest is bound to follow.