- Elsa Dutton: Man will always seek to take from others that which he could make for himself. Those are the words that have governed this family.Or perhaps, it is our refusal to surrender that governs us.
- Sister Mary: American women must maintain the house. A slovenly-kept home breeds apathy in children as well as disease, not to mention the wrath of the husband who built the home. He made it, you clean it. Line yourselves against the wall facing me. When I say, you will sweep to the edge in my direction. Now sweep.
- Sister Mary: Sweep it to the edge then grab a dust pan and sweep it off the edge into the pan. Then take it to the field and dump it.
- Sister Mary: Lord Jesus, be our guest. We ask you to bless this food. That it may nourish us and sustain us.
- Benson: I've settled your tab at the bar.
- Spencer Dutton: I'm not done yet.
- Benson: Oh, I've factored in the future.
- [last lines]
- Alexandra: [jumping into his car] Please drive... Look at me. If you don't want me to come, I'll get out.
- Spencer Dutton: Where I'm going is dangerous.
- Alexandra: Let's look death in the eye then, shall we?
- Sister Mary: Place your wet linen on the board and stretch it out. Grab the bar of soap and run the bar of soap over the linen until it suds. And now run the linen over the board and one-two-three-four, dunk in the water, turn it over, stretch it out. Grab the bar of soap and run it over the linen one, two, three, four.
- Jacob Dutton: [round the camp fire] Give a man enough time, he'll figure his way out of anything. I figure a few'll make it. I hope a few do.
- Jack Dutton: Why?
- Jacob Dutton: Someday, you're gonna run this place, and for your son to someday run it too, you got to understand what this ranch's greatest enemy is. It's not wolves, or drought, or blizzards, or Texas Fever. It's other men. Man will choose to take what you've built rather than try and build it for himself.
- Jacob Dutton: Every civilization in this world is built on top of the one they conquered. You go to Rome or Jerusalem or Paris, France, and it's cities stacked on top of towns, stacked on top of villages, on top of one man's house .. built on top of one man's cave. We wish it wasn't so, but it is. Your enemies have got to be so terrified, that their fear is greater than their greed.
- Jacob Dutton: I gave those men a chance 'cause I wanted them to tell the world what happened when they crossed me. Let's get some sleep, boys. There ain't no tellin' what tomorrow's gonna throw at us.