- Elam Hanks: If you would kill each other, then you must first kill us.
- Bishop Benjamin: There shall be no killing here. This is sacred ground.
- Zeb Macahan: Grey, you've got the devil's own luck.
- Martin Grey: Your nephew's not here, Macahan. But one day I'll run him to ground. And I'll kill 'em. And then I'll find you.
- Zeb Macahan: [to Luke] Hey, you're doing pretty good here, you got a bed to lie around in, pretty gall to look after ya. You've been gettin' some smarts since I seen ya.
- Jessie Macahan: Never seen Laura up so early, and so ready to do chores.
- Kate Macahan: I've never seen you ready to take a bath...
- Jessie Macahan: Have to go.
- Kate Macahan: Guess it makes a difference when there's a man around the house. Ha, ha!
- Zeb Macahan: Sooner we get to your boy, maybe I can get the army off your scent.
- Cully Madigan: You'll be ridin' with me?
- Zeb Macahan: Well, eh... I made my brother's wife a promise. Told 'em I was gonna take 'em to Oregon. I reckon savin' your boy's gotta come first.
- Cully Madigan: When I find the boy I mean to right in amongst them, Zeb. You could lose a little hair...
- Zeb Macahan: Never figured to live forever.
- Luke Macahan: That's strange. You'd kill a wolf for trying to kill your sheep but you won't kill a man that's trying to kill you. A wolf's only trying to get something to eat.
- Erika Hanks: A wolf has no soul.
- Luke Macahan: Neither do some men I've run across.
- Christy Judson: Ah, when am I gonna learn to not take stock in what you and your brother think is good sense? Ain't neither one of you got enough brains to fill up a thimble.
- Jake Judson: I know it, pah.
- Luke Macahan: You know, I got a little brother back home named Joshua. We call him Josh.
- Erika Hanks: From the Bible's Joshua?
- Luke Macahan: Oh, no, no, from my great-uncle Joshua. Yeah, folks say he used to run whiskey up and down the Mississippi. That was before he opened up a school for wayward girls and matches.
- Erika Hanks: But Joshua was a successor to Moses, it would not be permitted to call his namesake 'Josh'.
- Luke Macahan: I know, it would not be 'plain'.
- Luke Macahan: Bishop Benjamin, you just can't keep sticking me in the storeroom every time someone comes a lookin'.
- Christy Judson: [shouting] Hey Backshooter! I got one of your blackbird friends out here. If you don't step out here in one minute, I'm gonna start to kill him, real slow, starting with his ears!