Judge Harper: Dallas will be run by Federal law, not mob rule. We're not wild westerners. We're facing east and that's our future. We intend to build industries here, and culture. Dallas will raise people, not cows.
Blayde Hollister: If your carpetbag riffraff doesn't choke it to death in her cradle.


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Dallas

Marquis Henri de Labordere: [referring to Ben's stolen wallet] It is useless to look for it now, monsieur. In Mexico today chase a thief, and he disappears in a puff of smoke.
Joe Erin: It's only cowhide, Ben. Max'll buy yuh another.
Benjamin Trane: It wasn't the wallet. It's the sentiment. I had $12 in it.


--Gary Cooper (as Benjamin Trane) in Vera Cruz

U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: [after seeing the Marlow's office in town] Well, let's apprehend them!
Blayde Hollister: Never launch an attack, Yankee, until yuh know the tactical situation.
U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: You learned that at Vicksburg, Rebel?
Blayde Hollister: Foreigner, I'll make it simple so you can understand.
[Looking toward the saloon]
Blayde Hollister: The best place to reconnoiter is where the barleycorn flows!


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Dallas

U.S. Marshal Martin Weatherby: I should have taken you straight to a doctor.
Blayde Hollister: That's how you lost Bull Run, Yankee. Letting the enemy know your casualties.


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Dallas

Capt. Danette: [to Joe Erin] Your acquaintance with etiquette amazes me, monsieur. l had no idea you know which hand to use.
Benjamin Trane: [to Joe Erin] When l was no higher than a hound dog's tail on point,l had a little tin soldier, about so high. And one day l lost him... and l cried. My mother said "Stop bawlin'. Someday that soldier's bound to show up." And she was right.
[to Capt. Danette]
Benjamin Trane: You're back.


--Gary Cooper (as Benjamin Trane) in Vera Cruz

Lt. Richard Tufts: [Referring to Judy] I take her to be a lady of quality.
Capt. Quincy Wyatt: Why? Because she has a servant?


--Gary Cooper (as ) in Distant Drums

Max Plunkett: Mr. Curtis? What is your annual income, in round figures?
George Curtis: In round figures? Zero.
Max Plunkett: May I ask what you live on?
George Curtis: Nothing. I survive on miracles.


--Gary Cooper (as George Curtis) in Design for Living

Max Plunkett: What are you doing here?
George Curtis: At the moment, I'm leaving.


--Gary Cooper (as George Curtis) in Design for Living

Sir Wilfred Falcett: [During court testimony] After the loss of the Silver Isle, you found yourself, as the saying goes, "on the beach" for some considerable time, did you not?
Gideon Patch: Yes.
Sir Wilfred Falcett: You were glad to be taken on as a third officer?
Gideon Patch: Yes.
Sir Wilfred Falcett: That must have been a bitter experience for you, the sort of experience ends to put a chip on a man's shoulder. Wouldn't you agree?
Gideon Patch: That depends on the man!


--Gary Cooper (as Gideon Patch) in The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Joe Erin: Hey, you saved my bacon back there.
Benjamin Trane: Sorry I was so slow gettin' to yuh.
Joe Erin: You'd a been a little slower, you'd a stood to be a lot richer.
Benjamin Trane: Maybe I didn't think o' that.
Joe Erin: Too bad, You never know. Ace Hannah ran a gamblin' joint back in Laredo. Shot my old man in a stud game while I was still a kid. He felt so bad he gave me a home.
Benjamin Trane: What does that got to do with savin' your life?
Joe Erin: Ace used to say you don't take any chances you don't have to. Don't trust nobody you don't have to trust, and don't do no favors you don't have to do. Ace lived long enough to know he was right. He lived thirty seconds after I shot 'em.
[after Ben reacts to the revelation]
Joe Erin: You know somethin'? That's the first time I ever told anybody the story of my life.
Benjamin Trane: Thanks.


--Gary Cooper (as Benjamin Trane) in Vera Cruz