Matt Brown: I gave an order. I expect any man who works for me to obey it.
Chip Donohue: No, it's not what you say that galls me. It's the way you say it.
Matt Brown: You'll get used to it.
Chip Donohue: The question is, do I want to?
Matt Brown: You know when a man works the same job too long, he gets thinking no one else can do it.
Chip Donohue: I guess that makes him as big a fool as the boy who thinks if he gives enough orders, nobody will have time enough to know that most of them don't make sense.


--John Dehner (as ) in Cast a Long Shadow

Matt Brown: Why'd he leave it to me?
Chip Donohue: Don't dig, boy, you'll just break your shovel.


--John Dehner (as ) in Cast a Long Shadow

Chip Donohue: If I see one more hand touch one more jug, there may not be a jug... and there may not be a hand.


--John Dehner (as ) in Cast a Long Shadow

Chip Donohue: If you're just half as big a man as you want us to think you are, you'll admit you're wrong before there is any damage done.


--John Dehner (as ) in Cast a Long Shadow

Doutreval of Dijon: Think of this. A sword is like a bird. If you clutch it too tightly, you choke it - too lightly and it flies away.


--John Dehner (as Doutreval) in Scaramouche

Frank Boone: I started off with a ten-dollar horse, a bucking saddle and a rope. I went up in the hills. I caught myself a stallion and four mares. I built my herd from the ground. I fought and I clawed for twenty years. I wore out two wives, lost three sons and hung seven men for riding my brand without a bill of sale. But I build the biggest herd in Montana and nobody is going to take a head - not one - away from me without me coming after them!


--John Dehner (as ) in The Canadians

Pat Garrett: [about the fragility of the amnesty] One shot - one ten cent bullet, and that's it!


--John Dehner (as Pat Garrett) in The Left Handed Gun

Pat Garrett: This is my wedding, Billy. You try to start something, I'll take it hard.


--John Dehner (as Pat Garrett) in The Left Handed Gun

Pat Garrett: You see I work up a sweat - to mind my own business.


--John Dehner (as Pat Garrett) in The Left Handed Gun

Preacher Jason: The wrath of the Lord must move through his servants. Evil has come to us and it must be driven out.
Marshal Allan Burnett: Crowds can get unruly, Preacher. Our common problem is a matter for the law.
Preacher Jason: You're the law! And since you do nothing, I must!
Marshal Allan Burnett: If you don't respect the cloth you're wearing, I won't either. You're inciting a lynch mob and I've got to stop you.
Preacher Jason: If you're accusing me of hiding behind the cloth, I'm out front now. This morning, Marshal, I was all fired up about performing a wedding over you. Now if you make one move to stop us, I'm going to have to perform something else.


--John Dehner (as ) in A Day of Fury