Edward Creighton: Well then, I guess I better see the law about this.
Jack Slade: You'll have to go back to Omaha if you do. It don't run beyond there.
Edward Creighton: I'll make some of my own!


--Dean Jagger (as Edward Creighton) in Western Union

[an army officer tells the Mormons they must leave Illinois immediately because the law can't help them]
Brigham Young: The law? What law? The law that let's a pack of scoundrels come in here and hunt us down like wild animals, burn our homes, ruin our crops, arrest our leader on trumped-up charges and then look the other way when a mob breaks in and murders him? If they call that law, let 'em keep it. We don't want any more of it!


--Dean Jagger (as Brigham Young) in Brigham Young

[last lines]
[listening to the clack of the telegraph]
Richard Blake: Makes a nice sound, doesn't it, coming across a continent.
Edward Creighton: It's music.
Sue Creighton: I wish Shaw could hear it.
Edward Creighton: It's a long way from Salt Lake City to Boot Hill in Elkville, but I think he can hear it.


--Dean Jagger (as Edward Creighton) in Western Union