Stella Atkins: But then you're not a marshal or a sheriff.
Jeff Castle: He's a town-tamer.
Clint Tollinger: The difference is there are no rules in my end of the business except maybe one - never stay in one town too long.

Stella Atkins: Then what are you going to do?
Clint Tollinger: Nothing. I warned him; I thought I made it pretty clear.
Stella Atkins: Yes, but if you warned a child and he does something foolish anyway, you try to stop him from getting hurt.
Clint Tollinger: Oh, I see. You think Jeff is a child, huh?
Stella Atkins: Partly...
Clint Tollinger: Well, I think he's a man. He might be a little young and bullheaded about some things, but if there were more men like him around, I might not be here.

Marshal Lee Sims: Now don't tell them church biddies I said so, but Nelly is quite a female. Ain't no lady, of course, but if some of the men in this town stood up to Dade's boys like she does...

Marshal Lee Sims: You remind me of a hungry lion I once seen pace in a cage in St. Louis.
Clint Tollinger: I'm hiding out.
Marshal Lee Sims: You? From what?
Clint Tollinger: Questions I can't answer.

Saul Atkins: Tollinger?
Doc Hughes: Might call him a town doctor, too. Ponca was a mighty sick town. Clint operated on it. Patient lost a lot of blood - but lived.
Saul Atkins: Town-tamer!

Saul Atkins: You're right, of course, only you shouldn't have told him off in front of Stella when he's trying to prove to her he's a man now, and not the kid she grew up with.
Clint Tollinger: He chose the time, the place and the audience. Kind of a big audience for plans like that.

Jim Reedy: Well, now, I reckon it was downright foolish for Slim to draw agin' you. We maybe got off a little on the wrong foot. We're goin' back home now and we won't come to town no more carryin' our guns. Reckon that's what you want, isn't it?
Clint Tollinger: Yeah, that's what a want. Now you take Slim's body and bury him out on the prairie. It doesn't look nice for a town as small as Sheridan to have a graveyard as big as we've got.

Clint Tollinger: Jeff Castle made just one mistake.
Marshal Lee Sims: What?
Clint Tollinger: He didn't shoot to kill.

Clint Tollinger: Just how does he operate?
Marshal Lee Sims: Well, Dade's a fat man, but don't let that fool ya. Never lifts a pudgy finger himself. You take yesterday for example - just a typical day in Dade's life. He cut himself a piece out of a trail herd that was passing through, then he roughed up the new mine workers over Meadow Creek way, then he tried to grab young Jeff Castle's homesite and then, I bet ya, he divied up the gold dust they took off that poor dead miner over at the Palace. Nothin's too small or mean for Dade Holman. Nothin's too rich or fancy, either.

Clint Tollinger: Now get out of town and take your dead with you!