- Thomas Marsh: [after he older Brandon has verbalized his dream of a trancontinental railroad] Poor dreamer - he's chasing a rainbow.
- Lincoln: Yes, Tom - and some day men like you will be laying rails along that rainbow.
- intertitle: [Referring to Brandon] With his own hands he has driven the last spike - the buckle in the girdle of a continent.
- Judge Haller: [as Jesson and Brandon are about to have a showdown in the saloon] This town's a law an' order town - an' this fight's goin' to be conducted legal!
- intertitle: [Before narrative begins] Accurate and faithful in every particular of fact and atmosphere is this pictorial history of the building of the first American transcontinental railroad.
- Lincoln: [about the older Brandon] He feels the momentum of a great nation pushing westward - he sees the inevitable.
- Judge Haller: Boys, this bar of justice and likker will still function when we get to Cheyenne - Let 'er go!
- Dave Brandon: [to Miriam] When they drive the golden spike, we'll belong to both sides - and to each other.
- Cpl. Casey: [to Brandon] Put your pride in your pocket, me lad! Tell the sweet, young lady the truth.
- intertitle: [referring to Brandon] The roar of his father's dream - 'his' dream - for he too is helping to build it.