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No John Ford quotes yet?!!? A few from Stagecoach:
Ringo Kid: Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

[Mrs. Mallory, a passenger, has just given birth]
Buck: Hey, Curly, do you think I oughta charge Mrs. Mallory's baby half fare?


From Johnny Guitar:
Sam: [Meekly, to the two men in the kitchen] Never seen a woman who was more of a man. She thinks like one, acts like one, and sometimes makes me feel like I'm not.


Two from High Noon:
Martin: You risk your skin catching killers and the juries turn them loose so they can come back and shoot at you again. If you're honest you're poor your whole life and in the end you wind up dying all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothing. For a tin star.

Helen: You're a good-looking boy: you've big, broad shoulders. But he's a man. And it takes more than big, broad shoulders to make a man.


Can't forget Shane !
(for the 2nd Amendment crowd):
Shane: A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.

Joey: [A boy who doesn't understand] Pa's got things for you to do. And Mother wants you. I know she does!

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I have consulted my resident film scholar. She says that The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a western. I agree:
Gold Hat: Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.


The Oxbow Incident:
Major Tetley: This is only slightly any of your business, my friend. Remember that.
Gil Carter: Hangin' is any man's business that's around.

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.

Donald Martin: Why do ya keep asking me all these questions? You don't believe anything I tell you.
Major Tetley: There's truth in lies too, if you can get enough of them.


One from Rio Bravo:
John T. Chance: Stumpy?
Stumpy: Yeah?
John T. Chance: Going over to the hotel for a few minutes.
Stumpy: Well, if'n ya don't come back, me 'n' Joe'll have us a good cry.
(Walter Brennan (Stumpy) is hilarious!)


I love Westerns!