John Wayne
(as Tom Doniphon)
John Wayne
(as Tom Doniphon)
James Stewart
(as Ransom Stoddard)
Ransom Stoddard:
[looking into Doniphon's coffin, angrily] Where are his boots?
Undertaker: Aw, Ranse, they were brand new...
Ransom Stoddard: Give him back his boots!
Undertaker: Aw, Ranse, they were brand new...
Ransom Stoddard: Give him back his boots!
John Wayne
(as Tom Doniphon)
Carleton Young
(as Maxwell Scott)
Ransom Stoddard:
You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Maxwell Scott: No, sir. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
Jeanette Nolan
(as Nora Ericson)
Edmond O'Brien
(as Dutton Peabody)
Election Council President:
[at the territorial statehood convention] The chair recognizes its old friend; that distinguished member of the Fourth Estate, founder, owner, publisher and editor of the Shinbone Star, Mr. Dutton Peabody, Esquire!
Dutton Peabody: Thank you, thank you, Mister Chairman, for those kind words; but why don't you tell them the whole truth: founder, owner, editor, and I also sweep out the place.
Dutton Peabody: Thank you, thank you, Mister Chairman, for those kind words; but why don't you tell them the whole truth: founder, owner, editor, and I also sweep out the place.
John Wayne
(as Tom Doniphon)
Dutton Peabody:
[protesting his nomination to the statehood convention] Good people of Shinbone; I, I'm your conscience, I'm the small voice that thunders in the night, I'm your watchdog who howls against the wolves, I, I'm your father confessor! I - I'm... what else am I?
Tom Doniphon: Town drunk?
Tom Doniphon: Town drunk?
Edmond O'Brien
(as Dutton Peabody)
Dutton Peabody:
[to Liberty Valance and his gang who have been waiting for him in the newspaper office] Liberty Valance... and his myrmidons!
Edmond O'Brien
(as Dutton Peabody)
